Exam 17: Europe during the Enlightenment

The motto of the Enlightenment "Dare to know!" was coined by:

_________ was a Jewish philosopher who argued that religion should be voluntary,that secular states should promote tolerance,and that progress for everyone would come through humanitarianism.

Tabula rasa means "human mind."

Unlike the writers of the scientific revolution,the Enlightenment writers wrote for large audiences.

In The Spirit of Laws,Baron de Montesquieu argued:

How did the writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment deal with the topic of slavery?

The Enlightenment was vitally concerned with each of the following EXCEPT the:

According to the Abbé Guillaume Thomas François Raynal,the one event that had a profound impact on Europeans was the:

Laissez-faire economics originated in the writings of the Scottish economist Adam Smith who argued against state monopolies and for the encouragement of individual interests in the economy.

Although not well understood when first published in the eighteenth century,Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book,_________,would become very influential during the French Revolution later in the same century.

Although most Enlightenment thinkers did challenge certain central tenets of eighteenth-century culture and politics,a few held truly radical views.Among this radical group was:

The life and career of Cesare Beccaria was dedicated to the idea that:

Mary Wollstonecraft believed that equality laid the basis for virtue and thus argued that society ought to seek "the perfection of our nature and capability of:

France entered into war with Britain on behalf of the American colonies following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

What was the Enlightenment,and what role did the scientific revolution play in its creation?

Catherine the Great's effort to codify Russian Law along enlightened models was abandoned after:

How did Mary Wollstonecraft challenge the position of women in the Enlightenment?

The eighteenth century saw the birth of a new literary genre,the novel,and the growing acceptance of women as authors.The most famous woman from this period,as recognized today,was the English novelist:

The philosophes of the eighteenth century used people's houses in which to meet and converse on a more informal basis than that provided by the royal academies.These informal meetings were known as:

The South Pacific region was explored extensively by both the French and the English.The French explorer,Louis-Antoine de Bougainville,searched the South Pacific in search of a new route to China.He was soon followed by the English explorer: