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ENLIGHTENMENT QUESTIONS
7. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution during the
Enlightenment. What idea did they use? Why? (p. 54-55)
Answer to #1
2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
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2. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the Page 1 Continued…
RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)
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4. What changes occurred regarding the relationship between ruler and state? (p.56-57)
Answer To Question 4
5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment thinking had on Western
Civilization. (p.58, 60-61, 65)
Answer To Question 5

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MORE ENLIGHTENMENT QUESTIONS
• How does the attitude towards children
change during this period? (Ask Mr. P about
Postman’s Disappearance of Childhood)
Answer To Question 1
2. What new styles of writing and forms of
literature were developed? (p. 61-63)
Answer To Question 2
3. Who was that Voltaire guy? What did he
contribute to the Enlightenment? (p. 56)
Answer To Question 3

4. 1. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution
during the Enlightenment. What idea did they use?
Why? (p. 54-55)

5. 1. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution
during the Enlightenment. What ideas did they use?
Why? (p. 54-55)
a) A Scientific Revolution idea used was the scientific method.
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6. 1. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution
during the Enlightenment. What ideas did they use?
Why? (p. 54-55)
a) A Scientific Revolution idea used was the scientific method.
b) Scientific method was used on issues related to society such as…
religion, government, economics and education.
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7. 1. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution
during the Enlightenment. What ideas did they use?
Why? (p. 54-55)
a) A Scientific Revolution idea used was the scientific method.
b) Scientific method was used on issues related to society such as…
religion, government, economics and education.
c) Philosophers also used natural law, the idea that “rules are
discovered by reason” (like gravity and magnetism)
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8. 1. Philosophers use ideas of the Scientific Revolution
during the Enlightenment. What ideas did they use?
Why? (p. 54-55)
a) A Scientific Revolution idea used was the scientific method.
b) Scientific method was used on issues related to society such as…
religion, government, economics and education.
c) Philosophers also used natural law, the idea that “rules are
discovered by reason” (like gravity and magnetism)
d) Natural law was used to study human behavior and fix
society’s problems
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9. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of
Enlightenment. Explain how they helped to spread
ideas. (p. 57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS

10. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi
a
Today is like…?
Today is like…?
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11. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi
a
Today is like…?
Salons
Today is like…?
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12. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
Today is like…?
Salons
Today is like…?
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13. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Today is like…?
Salons
Today is like…?
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14. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Today is like…? c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
expression, and encouraged education
Salons
Today is like…?
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15. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Today is like…? c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
expression, and encouraged education
a) Meeting places in Paris where writers, artists,
Salons philosophes, scientists, poets, musicians and
travelers shared ideas at these social gatherings
Today is like…?
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16. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Today is like…? c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
expression, and encouraged education
a) Meeting places in Paris where writers, artists,
Salons philosophes, scientists, poets, musicians and
travelers shared ideas at these social gatherings
b) Social classes mixed (i.e. the middle class and
Today is like…? nobility) to discuss Enlightenment thoughts
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17. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Today is like…? c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
expression, and encouraged education
a) Meeting places in Paris where writers, artists,
Salons philosophes, scientists, poets, musicians and
travelers shared ideas at these social gatherings
b) Social classes mixed (i.e. the middle class and
Today is like…? nobility) to discuss Enlightenment thoughts
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18. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Same idea as c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
Wikipedia
expression, and encouraged education
a) Meeting places in Paris where writers, artists,
Salons philosophes, scientists, poets, musicians and
travelers shared ideas at these social gatherings
b) Social classes mixed (i.e. the middle class and
nobility) to discuss Enlightenment thoughts
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19. 2. Name two items that helped spread the ideas of Enlightenment.
Explain how they helped to spread ideas. (p. 55-57)
ITEM HOW IT HELPED SPREAD IDEAS
Encyclopedi a) explains philosophies, government, and
religion through 28 volumes of books
a
b) Included ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire
Same idea as c) Criticized slavery, advocated freedom of
Wikipedia
expression, and encouraged education
A) Meeting places in Paris where writers, artists,
Salons philosophes, scientists, poets, musicians and
Same idea as travelers shared ideas at these social gatherings
Coffeehauses or
Reading Wednesday
b) Social classes mixed (i.e. the middle class and
nobility) to discuss Enlightenment thoughts
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20. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the
RENAISSANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)

21. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the RENAISSANCE AND
ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)
RENAISSANCE ENLIGHTENMENT
•Rococo Art Style

22. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the RENAISSANCE AND
ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)
RENAISSANCE ENLIGHTENMENT
•Rococo Art Style
•Baroque Art Style

23. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the RENAISSANCE AND
ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)
RENAISSANCE ENLIGHTENMENT
•Rococo Art Style
•Religious Paintings
•Baroque Art Style

24. 3. Complete this Venn Diagram comparing the RENAISSANCE AND
ENLIGHTENMENT ART. (p. 61)
RENAISSANCE ENLIGHTENMENT
•Baroque Art Style
a) large, colorful and full of
•Religious Paintings excitement
Italy (mostly)
• European figures b) Glorified Battles & Saints
Religious focus
Non-realism (much of…)
• European art
• large, colorful, full of excitement • Rococo Art Style
• Glorified Saints b) Non- religion
c) Lighter, elegant
• Glorified Battles and charming
. d) More pastel colors

25. 4. What changes occurred regarding the
relationship between ruler and state? (pg. 63-65)

26. 4. What changes occurred regarding the
relationship between ruler and state? (pg.63-65)
• Shift from people serving state & ruler to…
• The ruler and state serving the people.
• Fredrick the Great of Prussia said,
“I am the first servant of the state.”
d) Catherine the Great of Mother Russia
- Reduce torture & allow free press, religion, criticized serfdom
e) Joseph II of Austria liked enlightenment ideas (Mother’s influence)
a) - Dressed in disguise to learn peasant problems
b) religious equality for Jews & Protestants in his Catholic Empire
c) Sold church land that were not involved with education or helping the sick
d) Abolished serfdom
MOST REFORMS WERE OVER TURNED AFTER THE LEADERS DEATH.
Do good reforms last? Which are being taken from you today?
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27. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)

28. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a)
b)
c)
MR P SAYS:
1)
2)
3
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29. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b)
c)
MR P SAYS:
1)
2)
3
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30. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c)
MR P SAYS:
1)
2)
3
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31. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
1)
2)
3
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32. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
• Belief in Progress –
2)
3
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33. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
• Belief in Progress –
2) A More Secular Outlook:
3
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34. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
• Belief in Progress –
2) A More Secular Outlook:
3 Importance of the Individual:
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35. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
1) Belief in Progress – philosophers believed through reason
there could be a better society
• A More Secular Outlook:
3 Importance of the Individual:
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36. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
1) Belief in Progress – philosophers believed through reason
there could be a better society
2) A More Secular Outlook: To have a more open and worldly
view of life based on logic and reason. Not a religious
outlook on life.
3) Importance of the Individual:
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37. 5. Name and EXPLAIN 3 long-term effects the Enlightenment
thinking had on Western Civilization.(p. 58, 60-61)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Adam Smith introduced capitalism
b) Laissez-faire replaced mercantilism
c) Enlightenment thinkers showed that divine right and strict class rule
were illogical. Social reform was deemed necessary.
MR P SAYS:
1) Belief in Progress – philosophers believed through reason
there could be a better society
2) A More Secular Outlook: To have a more open and worldly
view of life based on logic and reason. Not a religious
outlook on life.
3) Importance of the Individual: People started to
look to themselves for guidance NOT the church or
royalty. People should use their OWN judgment to
determine what is right and what is wrong.
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38. • How does the attitude towards
children change during this period?
(Ask about Postman’s Disappearance of Childhood)
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39. 2. What new styles of writing and forms of
literature were developed? (p. 63)

40. 2. What new styles of writing and forms of
literature were developed? (p. 63)
BOOK SAYS
b) The middle class audience liked stories in vernacular
(straightforward, everyday language).
b) Long prose gained popularity
c) Famous literary works include Robinson Crusoe and Pamela
MR P SAYS:
f) Novel – Lengthy works of fiction
g) Plots – carefully planned
h) Suspense –
i) Climax
j) Explored characters thoughts and feelings
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41. 3. Who was that Voltaire guy? What did he
contribute to the Enlightenment? (p. 56)

42. 3. Who was that Voltaire guy? What did he
contribute to the Enlightenment? (p. 56)
BOOK SAYS:
a) Perhaps most prominent philosophe and writer of the Enlightenment
b) He exposed government corruption, inequality, and prejudice (such as
slavery and religious persecution) through his writings
c) His work was controversial—he was kicked out of France and his
books were destroyed
MR P SAYS: Read Candide by Voltaire – One of Mr. P’s favorite books 
• Voltaire stood for or promoted tolerance, reason, freedom of
religion, freedom of speech and freedom of media
• Voltaire Quotes: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it.”
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.”
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