Wars/Politics
The major European War that led to Great Britain becoming the leading world power
What is the 7 Years War?
Name 3 philosophes/philosophers!
What is Voltaire, David Hume, Mary Wollenstone, Denis Diderot, Baruch Spinoza, Rousseau, Baron Paul d'Holbach, Marie Jean de Condorcet etc
The work that Thomas Hobbes published that advocated for absolutist form of government
What is Leviathan?
The painting style that arose out of the Catholic Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent.
What is baroque?
The social (and economic) group that still made up the vast majority of Europeans (around 85%).
What is the peasantry?
The country that was divided 3 times until it no longer existed as a political entity.
What is Poland?
The religion that philosophes commonly followed that believed that God is a "clockmaker" who does not interact with the world.
The belief about the role of government proposed by John Locke.
What is the belief that government should uphold the Natural Rights of its citizens?
The art style popular at this time that focused on recapturing the style of ancient Greece and Rome
What is neoclassicism?
The place often owned by aristocratic women where philosophes would often meet up and talk about their ideas
What are salons?
The war that led to Prussia gaining Silesia from Austria.
What is the War of Austrian Succession?
The difference between Empiricism and Rationalism (i.e. basically define each).
What is empiricism is the belief that we must use our senses to understand the natural world, while rationalism is the belief that we must use reason and mathematics to understand the things of this world, not relying on out senses?
Rousseau propose that this should essentially be the relationship between the people and the government
What is the Social Contract (where the people choose to submit to the government in return for protection of their natural rights)?
The more delicate and nonchalant art style that emerged following the Baroque movement. (Hint: sounds kinda like Baroque)
What is rococo?
Two factors that led to the Agricultural Revolution in England
What are the end of the Little Ice Age, better farming technology, introduction of New World crops, the Enclosure Acts, etc?
The three monarchs associated with being "Enlightened Absolutists"
What is Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick II of Prussia, and Joseph II of Austria
How Immanuel Kant defined enlightenment
What is "man's leaving from his self-caused immaturity"?
4 differences between lasseiz-faire capitalism as described by Adam Smith and mercantilism as described by Colbert)
What are [answers may vary, Evan will judge]?
The Baroque composer who would master contatas and motets in order to create an ordered yet elaborate style of music. (Hint: he made music "for the glory of God")
Who was Bach?
2 factors that caused the European population to grow in this period
What are lower child mortality rates and better transportation of food?
The woman that influenced King Louis XV to side with Austria rather than Prussia in the 7 Years War
Madame de Pompadour
Which philosophe wanted to gather all human knowledge into an Encyclopedia?
What is Denis Diderot?
The idea about government that Montesquieu proposed after seeing the English system of government
What is Separation of Powers?
The new literary genre that would emerge in the 18th Century that grew out of medieval romances and picaresque stories of the Sixteenth Century.
What is the novel?
The difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. (Hint: Sir Francis Bacon proposed inductive, while Descartes proposed deductive)
What is that inductive reasoning believes that you should come to a conclusion after making many empirical observations about something, while deductive reasoning believes that you should come to conclusions on the basis of general principles (going broad to specific)?