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Enlightenment
Question | Answer |
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French absolute monarch | Louis XIV |
Russian absolute monarch | Peter the Great |
Palace of Louis XIV | Versailles |
Describes what Peter the Great wanted for Russia | Westernization |
Enlightenment ideas influenced revolutions in these two places | America, France |
Wanted free speech and freedom of religion | Voltaire |
Believed the best government had a separation of powers | Montesquieu |
Believed people are born with natural rights | Locke |
Believed that government is a contract between rulers and the people | Rousseau |
Believed people need a strong ruler to control their bad behavior | Hobbes |
U.S. documents influenced by Enlightenment ideas | Declaration,Constitution,Bill of Rights |
Baroque German composer | Bach |
Classical Austrian composer | Mozart |
Novelist-"Don Quixote" | Cervantes |
French painter-"Liberty Leading the People" | Delacroix |
Time period of the Enlightenment | 1600's-1700's |
Wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
2 improvements in transportation during this time | all-weather roads, ship design |
Farming productivity increased because of this | Better designs in farm tools (Agricultural Revolution) |