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Enlignt Potpourri
Roots
Thinkers
Women
Impact
100
The center of the Age of Enlightenment? (What country?)
What is France? England is also acceptable.
100
Men and women Enlightenment thinkers are also referred to as.
Who are philosophers?
100
Held that for humans, life was "nasty, brutish, and short," and that man was essentially "bad" by nature.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100

Madame Geoffrin, along with many other women, contributed to the spread of Enlightenment ideas by hosting these social gatherings all over Europe

What are salons?

100
Revolutions that were inspired by Enlightenment ideas. (DAILY DOUBLE if you can name both!)
What are the American and French revolutions?
200
The time period of the Age of Enlightenment
What is the 17th century?
200

The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution are similar due to both valuing this. (two words)

What is observation and reason?

200
These rights were thought of by John Locke during the Enlightenment and you get them just by existing as a human being.
What are 'natural rights'?
200
Mary Wollstonecraft considered this the key to equality and freedom for women?
What is education?
200
A document inspired by Enlightenment thinkers that changed the United States and impacted England?
What is the Declaration of Independence? Bill of Rights is acceptable.
300
A second name for the Age of Enlightenment.
What is the Age of Reason?
300

The eras of Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment all find worth in this.

What is the individual? or people?

300
Montesquieu's doctrine of separation of powers in government is where the framers of the American system got the idea to separate its government into these three branches
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
300

What was the name of the book created by Mary Wollstonecraft

What is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 

300

Catherine the Great proposed that this should be illegal. Hint...it can be very painfull

What is torture?

400

The new era of Enlightenment meant that people could now do this for themselves.

What is think? They can use their big brains. They can learn to read words

400

This revolution questioned the validity of the catholic church using Science.

Scientific Revolution: The groundbreaking scientific discoveries and methods of thinkers like Galileo, Newton, and Descartes in the 16th and 17th centuries laid the foundation for the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason, empiricism, and the scientific approach to understanding the world.

400

This is an Enlightened Despot who was also known as "Catherine II" or Sophie Augusta Fredericka

Who is Catherine the Great?

400

True or False Mary Wollstonecraft believed that Women were educated to be submissive [obedient] to men and to value physical attractiveness over character and intelligence

What is True?

400
According to Locke's social contract, this gives government its authority.
What is agreement among free people.
500

This was a book written by Locke

"Two Treatises of Government"

Power to the People

500
An old idea regarding monarchy that all Enlightenment philosophers did not believe in.
What are the 'divine rights of kings'?
500

This gentlemen organized the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Hint ( his initials are W.W)

Who is William Wilberforce?

500

Catherine the Great of Russia, Fredrick the Great of Prussia, and Joseph II of. What is the name given to these leaders who were influenced by the enlightenment?

Who are 'enlightened despots'?

500

The proliferation of books, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets led to a dramatic growth in this during the 18th century.( hint remember the chart I showed you a week ago

What is literacy?