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ENLIGHTENMENT JEOPARDY
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100 200 300 400 500 Philosophes Religion Society Politics Women
Odds and Ends Hodge Podge 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy Politics
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_____ and _____ were the major intellectual forerunners of the Enlightenment.
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Isaac Newton and John Locke
Philosophes
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In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke argued that all humans enter the world a _____, or blank page 200
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Tabula Rasa Philosophes
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What book praised the virtues of the English and implicitly criticized the abuses of French society?
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Letters on the English Philosophes BONUS
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Written by Voltaire,____, attacked war, religious persecution, and what he considered unwarranted optimism about the human condition
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Candide Philosophes
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Name four of the most famous philosophes.
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Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, D’Alembert, Rousseau, Hume, Gibbon, Smith, Lessing, Kant
Philosophes
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Philosophes criticized the Christian church for many things except:
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Taking a small role in national politics
Philosophes
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Which religion regarded God as a kind of divine watchmaker who had created the mechanism of nature, set it in motion, and departed? 100
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Deism Religion
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Many portrayed ___ as an exceptionally carnal or sexually promiscuous religion
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Islam Religion
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David Hume radically spoke out against ____ in religion.
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Miracles Religion
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Gotthold Lessing wrote ____ which was a plea for toleration of not only Christianity, but also other religious faiths. 400
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Nathan the Wise Religion BONUS
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In ___ Spinoza so closely identified God and nature, or the spiritual and material worlds, that contemporaries condemned him.
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Ethics Religion
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Voltaire wrote _____ to hound authorities for a new investigation of a case where a Huguenot was sentenced to execution for the murder of his son 500
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Treatise on Tolerance Religion
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The Enlightenment flourished in a ____, that is, a culture in which books, journals, newspapers, and pamphlets had achieved a status of their own. 100
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Print Culture Society
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An expanding, literate public and the growing influence of secular printed materials created a new and increasingly influential force known as_________. 200
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Public Opinion Society
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______ originated with philosophes’ hoping to end human cruelty by discovering social laws and making people aware of them. 300
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Social Science Society
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Beccaria published _____, in which he applied critical analysis to the problem of making punishments both effective and just. 400
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On Crimes and Punishments
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What was one of the greatest monuments of the enlightenment and its most monumental undertaking in the realm of print culture? 500
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Encyclopedia Society BONUS
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Denis Diderot in the Encyclopedia included illustrations of what?
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Machinery and working people from across the globe
Society
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Adam Smith is considered the founder of ?
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Laissez-faire Politics
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Aristocratic courts were known as:
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parlements Politics
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In ____, Montesquieu pursued an empirical method, taking illustrative examples from the political experience of both ancient and modern nations. 300
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Spirit of Laws Politics
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Within The Wealth of Nations, Smith, like other Scottish thinkers of the day, embraced an important theory of human social and economic development known as: 400
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The four stage theory Politics BONUS
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_____ does not propose specific reforms, but outlines the kind of political structure that Rousseau believed would overcome the evils of contemporary politics and society.
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The Social Contract Politics
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Rousseau suggested that society is _____ than its individual members.
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More important Politics
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Marry Wollstonecraft wrote ______ in 1792.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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In a Vindication of the Rights of Women Wollstonecraft ______ the argument for distinct and separate spheres for men and women. 200
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Criticizes and rejects
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Most philosophes were not strong _____.
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feminists Women
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Which Philosophe indicated a belief in the equality of men and women?
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Montesquieu Women BONUS
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The Encyclopedia suggested ways to improve women’s lives but did not advocate:
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Reform for the condition of women.
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Who helped Voltaire publish Elements of the Philosophy of Newton?
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Voltaire’s mistress Countess Emilie de Chatelet
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What two styles of art dominated 18th century European art and architecture?
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Rococo and Neoclassical
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Neoclassicism recalled ancient republican values that implicitly criticized _______.
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The Old Regime Hodge Podge
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Rococo architecture and decoration originated in early 18th century ____.
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France Hodge Podge
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The paintings associated with Rococo art often portrayed the aristocracy _____.
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At play Hodge Podge
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Name 4 rulers who embodied Enlightened Absolutism.
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Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa, Joseph II, Catherine the Great
Hodge Podge BONUS
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The French aristocrats built ___ in Paris after the death of King Louis XIV’s death in 1715.
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Hotels Hodge Podge
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What is the form of monarchial government in which the central absolutist administration was strengthened and rationalized at the cost of other smaller centers of political power?
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Enlightened Absolutism
Final Jeopardy
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The greatest German philosophe of the Enlightenment.
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Immanuel Kant Odds and Ends
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_____ in France argued against an uninvolved or impersonal God
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Jansenism Odds and Ends
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______ played a major roll in the salon movement.
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Women Odds and Ends
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Deism proclaimed that the universe was governed by _______, not by a personal God.
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Natural law Odds and Ends
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The political outgrowth of the Enlightenment.
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Classical Liberalism Odds and ends
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