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(Spielvogel chapters 16 and 17) **Chapter 17:** **The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment** Key Terms and Essays Identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following. (In other words, describe what it is or who it is and explain **why** it matters.)
 * Unit 3: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment **
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//The Enlightenment// Reason, natural law, hope, progress Fontenelle The Plurality of Worlds Skepticism Peter Bayle The Historical and Critical Dictionary James Cooks’ //Travels// “noble savage” John Locke //(again, because he’s that important)// Legacy of Locke and Newton //Philsophes// Montesquieu Voltaire deism Diderot Physiocrats Francois Quesnay laissez-faire Adam Smith Rousseau General Will Rousseau’s idea of the social contract Mary Astell Mary Wollstonecraft salons Geoffrin //Culture and Society in the Enlightenment// Rococo Antonie Watteau Balthasar Neumann Neoclassicism Jacques-Louis David Johann Sebastian Bach George Frederick Handel Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart History in the Enlightenment Edward Gibbon high culture popular culture Cesare Beccaria carnival taverns //Religion and the Churches// Joseph II’s Tolertation Patent Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews pogroms John Wesley/Methodism I will not have you write an essay, but if I did, it would be one of these: 1) What new ideas did the philosophes contribute in the areas of: politics, economics, education, religion, and economics (choose three of these topics to discuss in your essay). 2) What role did women play in the development of the Enlightenment? 3) Compare and contrast the political ideas of Montesquieu and Voltaire with those of Hobbes and Machiavelli. (comparison)
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