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Great Britain
Vocabulary
100
He believed in the Social Contract but once you gave up your power, you could NOT take your power back.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
He wrote "Robinson Crusoe"
Who is Daniel Defoe?
100
Rulers who did accept some of the new ideas of the Enlightenment, but who continued to hold tremendous power.
What are Enlightenment despots?
100
It is a group of advisers that met in a small room.
What is a cabinet?
100
It emphasized reason and individualism.
What is Enlightenment?
200
He tried to show how manufacturing, trade, wages, profits, and economic growth were all linked to the market forces of supply and demand.
Who is Adam Smith?
200
He was a Dutch painter.
Who is Rembrandt?
200
It developed when a group of noblewomen began inviting friends to their homes for poetry readings.
What is the Salon?
200
It is a government whose power is defined and limited by law.
What is constitutional government?
200
Means hands off or leave alone.
What is laissez faire?
300
He believed in freedom of speech, separation of church and state, and majority rules.
Who is Voltaire?
300
German composer that wrote "Messiah"
Who is Handel?
300
He was the most radical of Enlightenment despots.
Who is Joseph II of Austria?
300
This economy worked in Great Britain because the nobles engaged in it and it had less restrictions.
What is mercantilism?
300
They were Enlightenment thinkers who focused on economics.
What are the physiocrats?
400
He believed people were basically good and had a natural innocence.
Who is Rousseau?
400
He wrote religious songs for the organ and choir.
Who is Bach?
400
This person toyed with implementing Enlightenment ideas while ruling Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
England became united with these areas to help facilitate its rise to global prominence.
What is Wales and Scotland?
400
It is the agreement of the govern to give up their power to the government to have an organized society.
What is the social contract?
500
He wanted to separate the powers of government among three branches to prevent any one branch from getting too powerful.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
500
He was a child prodigy that died in poverty at 35 years old.
Who is Mozart?
500
Governments used this to protect themselves from the attacks of Enlightenment thinkers.
What is censorship?
500
They are two parties that developed in England in the 1700s.
What are Tories and Whigs?
500
It was a new form of literature in the 1700s.
What is the novel?