These people were the social critics of the Enlightenment period in France. They discuss politics and ideas and believe that people could apply reason to all aspects of life.
Who were philosophes?
100
This style of art emerged in the early 1700s and was characterized by a grand, ornate design. It could be seen in elaborate places, like Versailles.
What is baroque?
100
These were hosted in large drawing rooms by wealthy women. Philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, and other intellects gathered to discuss ideas.
What are salons?
100
This is to be concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.
What is secular?
200
This man believed people could learn from experience and improve themselves. He believed in natural rights of life, liberty, and property. His beliefs were fundamental to the US Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke?
200
This style of painting was under the influence of the Enlightenment, and it borrowed ideas and themes from classical Greece and rome.
What is neoclassical?
200
This was an agreement by which people created a government created by Hobbes.
What is a social contract?
200
These men, such as Galileo and Newton, made key new discoveries in chemistry, physics, biology, and mechanics that led to the belief that human reason could solve social problems.
What are scientists?
300
This man believed in religious freedom, freedom of thought, and freedom of expression. He caused these ideas to be guarunteed in the US Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
Who is Voltaire?
300
This type of music emerged during the Enlightement period. It was a new, lighter, and more elegant style.
What is classical music?
300
This woman during the 1700s pushed for women's rights by publishing an essay on the Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
This and careful observation became important in many different fields during the Scientific Revolution.
What is the scientific method?
400
These are the five core concepts of the philosophes.
What are....
1. reason
2. nature
3. happiness
4. progress
5. liberty
400
These lengthy works of prose fiction began to be written by European authors in the 18th century.
What is a novel?
400
The old idea of the right to govern was: a monarch's rule is justified by divine right. This is the new idea of the right to govern.
What is: a government's power comes from the consent of the governed?
400
This was one of his ideas: People could win salvation only by faith in God's gift of forgiveness.
Who is Martin Luther?
500
This man wrote his views in the book: The Social Contract.
Who is Rousseau?
500
These three composers from Vienna, Austria, rank among the greatest figures of the classical period in music. (name one)
Who are Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven?
500
This man criticized absolute monarchy and favored the idea of self-government. He believed people were born free and equal.
Who is John Locke?
500
He challenged Aristotle's idea that the physical world was consisted of on earth, fire, water, and air.