The Enlightenment
What is the term for an elegant drawing room of the wealthy upper-classes, great urban houses?
Salon
What is the term for a new artistic style, (during the 1730s) that spread all over Europe? It emphasized grace, charm, gentle action, and was used in delicate designs.
Rococo
What was the new type of monarchy that applied a system where rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principals while maintaining their royal powers?
Enlightened Absolutism
What is a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence?
Scientific Method
What were the offspring of Europeans and Native Americans called?
Mestizos
Who was considered to be the founder of European and American women's rights movements? She was largely self-educated and worked as a governess as well as a writer.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Who was a renown organist as well as a composer, who spent his entire life Germany, and gained the reputation of being one of the greatest composers of all time?
Bach
Who was one of the best educated and most cultured monarchs of the eighteenth-century? He was a dedicated ruler who was well versed in the ideas of Enlightenment, enlarged the Persian army, granted limited freedom of speech, and practiced greater religious toleration.
Frederick II or Frederick the Great
Who was the first European to make discoveries about the Moon, Jupiter, and sunspots?
Galileo
Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz
What is an eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and law?
Deism
The ideas of the Enlightenment also had an impact on the world of culture. Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed both traditional practices and important changes in art, music, and ________.
Literature
What is the name of Catherine the Great's husband, who was murdered by a group of nobles, allowing Catherine to rise to the throne?
Peter III
What is the concept of a sun-centered universe
Heliocentric
Where power would be shared between national and state government.
Federal System
What was one of the favorite words of intellectuals that were in the Enlightenment?
Reason
Who was a true child prodigy, he wrote passionately, through his hardships, creating three of the world's greatest operas?
Mozart
Who was the Empress who inherited the throne in 1740, She worked to centralize the Austrian Empire and stregthen the power of the state. She was not open to the philosophes' calls for reform, but she worked hard to alleviate the condition of serfs?
Maria Theresa
What is a system where Earth is at the center of the universe
Geocentric
Who were the offspring of Africans and Europeans called?
Mulattoes
What became a major weapon in the philosophes' crusade against the old French society?
The Encyclopedia
Who was one of the greatest architects of the eighteenth-century whos two masterpieces were the Church of the Fourteen Saints in southern Germany and the Residence, the palace of the prince-bishop of Wurzburg.
Balthasar Neumann
What is a system of government in where most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives?
Bureaucracy
Where the universe is a series of concentric spheres inside of each other.
Ptolemaic System
What were the 10 amendments approved by the states called?
Bill of Rights