EN - Enlightenment Review. (Lesson)

Enlightenment Review.

Review Activities.

Complete the activities below to review what you have learned.

 

Questions to Consider.

1. What type of books were not legal in France?
2. Which event was instrumental in discouraging Catherine the Great from implementing Enlightened ideals in Russia?
3. How did the French government change after the death of Louis XIV particularly in relation to the parliament's?
4. What was Baron Montesquieu's political theory?
5. What was Voltaire's attitudes toward the French government, religion, and social system?
6. What was a Parisian salon and what role did it play in France during the Enlightened period?
7. What were the main characteristics and values of the Enlightenment period?
8. What factors led to France being the center of the Enlightenment movement?
9. Who were the top Enlightened philosophes and what were their theories?
10. What was the main idea of Rousseau's Social Contract? What is the general will and what role does it play in government according to Rousseau?
11. What was Maria Theresa's policy toward her peasants?
12. What factors served to erode French absolutism?
13. What policy of Louis XV's finance minister angered the French nobles, clergy, and townspeople?
14. How did Catherine the Great come to power?
15. What was the form and the message of the Persian Letters?
16. What were the philosophies of Voltaire and Montesquieu and how did they affect the post enlightened world?

 

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