Philosophers
Philosopher who believed in natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
Country that was the center of Enlightenment thinking.
What is France?
The belief that the King is accountable only to God and not his subjects.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
Agreement in which the British acquired French Canada, France retained sugar islands in the Caribbean and Prussia retained possession of Silesia.
Treaty of Paris, 1763
An era that marked the emergence of modern science and changed traditional views about nature, influencing the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Philosopher that wrote the Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Locations that served as a safe haven and had an important role in promoting conversation and sociability.
What are salons?
The movement in which the spread of scientific knowledge resulted in questioning religious truths and values.
What is New Skepticism?
A time of great indulgence in the weeks leading up to the beginning of Lent.
What is Carnival?
Revolution influenced by the new concepts of government (popular sovereignty) and the idea of natural rights.
What is the French Revolution?
Enlightenment thinker known for his attacks on the Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
Who is Voltaire?
The country The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen pertains to.
What is France?
The theory that at birth, the mind is blank without rules for processing data.
What is Tabula Rasa?
An edict of toleration issued on 13 October 1781 by the Habsburg emperor Joseph II.
What is the Toleration Patent of 1781?
A literary/artistic movement that rebelled against and defined itself in opposition to the Enlightenment.
What is Romanticism?
Early feminist and Enlightenment writer who denied male supremacy and advocated equal rights for women in education.
Where was the only system of state-supported primary schools established?
What is the Habsburg Austrian Empire?
a literary stock character who embodies the concept of the indigene or wild human who has not been "corrupted" by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness.
What is a “noble savage”?
The reversal of longstanding alliances in Europe between the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
A revolution that was influenced by Enlightenment concepts such as freedom of speech, equality, freedom of press, and religious tolerance, etc.
What is the American Revolution?
Philosopher that believed that titles of nobility should be abolished.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The country that had an "Enlightenment" monarch who believed in the freedom of the press and had several Enlightenment thinkers in his court.
What is Prussia (Frederick II)?
The concept of the abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
What is laissez-faire?
The era of European absolute monarchs during the 18th and 19th centuries who were influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment.
What is the Enlightened Despotism?
An exuberantly decorative 18th-century European style of art, architecture and interior decoration influenced by the Enlightenment.
What is Rococo?