______ discovered a law that made Europeans begin to use scientific reasoning.
Newton
______ believed that rulers should have absolute power.
Hobbes
______ believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property.
Locke
______ believed in separate of powers in government.
Montesquieu
______ said that all people were born good.
Rousseau
Madame ______ held the most famous salon in Paris.
Geoffrin
______ criticized the French government and the king put him in jail.
Voltaire
______ published the first encyclopedia.
Diderot
Empress ______ of Austria was an enlightened ruler.
Maria Theresa
_____ was a famous baroque composer.
Handel
Enlightened thinkers believed that ______ could lead them to truth.
b. reason
According to Montesquieu, the spirit of a republic is ______.
a. virtue
Hobbes thought that order was more important than ______ in a society.
c. freedom
______ composed music during the Age of Reason.
a. Handel, b. Mozart, c. Bach
Many enlightened thinkers thought that reason could solve the problems of ______.
a. society