The Enlightenment Questions and
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Diedrot ✔✔Edited the "Encyclopedia"
Montesquieu ✔✔Wrote the "Spirit of Laws"
Voltaire ✔✔Wrote "Candide"
Rousseau ✔✔Wrote "The Social Contract"
"Encyclopedia" ✔✔This
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The Enlightenment Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Diedrot ✔✔Edited the "Encyclopedia"
Montesquieu ✔✔Wrote the "Spirit of Laws"
Voltaire ✔✔Wrote "Candide"
Rousseau ✔✔Wrote "The Social Contract"
"Encyclopedia" ✔✔This was used to criticized the government, the Church, and society
Montesquieu ✔✔Described "perfect" government
Voltaire ✔✔Championed freedom of thought and religion
Rousseau ✔✔Believed in popular sovereignty
Rationalism ✔✔Belief that the truth can be determined solely by logical thinking
Enlightenment ✔✔Period in the 1700s when philosophers believed that they could apply the
scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically.
Enlightened Despotism ✔✔System of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according
to the principles of the Enlightenment
Absolute Monarch ✔✔System of government in which the ruler determines policy without
consulting either the people or the representatives
Salons ✔✔Gathering of the social, political, and cultural elite in France during the
Enlightenment.
Philosphes ✔✔A group of thinkers or philosphers of the Enlightenment
Marie Thérèse Geoffrin ✔✔Hostess of one of the salons
Paris ✔✔City that was the center of intellectual activity during the Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes ✔✔wrote "Leviathan"
Locke ✔✔wrote "Second (Two) Treaties of Government"
life, liberty, and property ✔✔Locke believed that you kept these rights
English Civil War ✔✔Event that influenced Hobbes
Glorious Revolution ✔✔Event that influenced Locke
Popular Sovereignty ✔✔Governmental principle based on just laws and on a government created
by and subject to the will of the people.
Rousseau ✔✔Believed in the idea of popular sovereignty
Montesquieu ✔✔Believed in Separation of Powers and Check and Balances
Voltaire ✔✔He influenced Enlightened Despots in Eastern Europe
Voltaire ✔✔Attacked injustice among nobility, government, church and believed in religious
freedom
Jean d' Alembert ✔✔Co-edited the "Encyclopedia"
Mary Wollstonecraft ✔✔Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
Mary Wollstonecraft ✔✔Called for equal rights and education for woman
Frederick II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Prussia
Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Russia
Joseph II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ruled Austria
Joseph II ✔✔Enlightened despot who eliminated torture and the death penalty
Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who drafted Russian constitution but never put it into
practice
Catherine II ✔✔Enlightened despot who increased serfdom
Federick II ✔✔Enlightened despot who ordered elementary education for all children
Thomas Hobbes ✔✔He believed that once people entered into a social contract, they could not
rebel and that the monarch had right to put down rebellion
Hobbes ✔✔Believed that society began in anarchy and needed a absolute monarch to maintain a
orderly society
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