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What did Thomas Hobbes believe about people?
Naturally evil and needed the government to keep them in check
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of Rights of a Woman and is considered one of the first public _________?
Feminests
What did Peter do to his son and why?
Tortured because he wanted to know who plotted against him
How did Catherine weigh her enlightenment ideals with the reality of her position?
Herself first always. Never threatened her crown
According to Locke, if the government does not defend our natural rights, what should we do?
Overthrow it
What where the Natural Rights
Life, Liberty, Property
How did Catherine rise to power?
Took over from her husband who was weird and had the support of many including Elizabeth and Gregory
How/When did Queen Elizabeth take over for Peter the great?
16 years silent bloodless coup
What were the original “Salons”?
Places where people could meet and trade culture/ideas, originally noble women but expanded to middle class women and great thinkers/muscians
Who gave kings their right to the absolute power of the throne? What was it called?
God, Devine right to the throne
After Peter battled the Turks what did he do/learn?
Wanted to be a pupil and learn, build ships and sail (became a shiprite)
How did Peter The Great develop Russia into a military power?
War games, standing militart, developing navy, ending neiptism
What did Thomas Hobbes think people should enter into with the government?
Rousseau thought that people were ok but….? What kind of government did he believe could impose control?
Society made them bad, of freely elected gov
What was King Louis XIV's motivation for building Versailles? How did he keep the Nobles in line?
Distract from issues, wild detailed etiquette
What were some of Catherine's Reforms?
St. Petersburg art and beuaty of mueseums and libraries, increased acess to education, supported more autonomy for local government, challenged tradition and encouraged enlightenment ideals
What were some of Peter’s greatest reforms?
Expansion of mining and manufacturing, increased number of schools, removed nepotism from officers/civil courts, men and women could chose who to marry no more arranged marriages.
In his work The Spirit of Laws Montesquieu argued the government should be separated into _______ so that the government would have _____ and _________?
Three branches, checks and balances
Diderot made the first ________ that changed “The general way of thinking”, what kind of things did they talk about?
Encylcpaedia, Politics, religion, science, etc
What is an Enlightened Despot?
a ruler who uses their power to bring about political and social change. Specifcally an absolute monarch