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enlightment
Question | Answer |
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salon | gathering place social for discussing ideas or art |
Baroque | grand ornate style |
neoclassicism | simple style that borrowed ideas from classical Greek & Rome |
enlightenment despot | ruler who supported enlightenment ideas but did not give up power |
Katherine the Great | Russian ruler who took steps to modernize Russia |
Why were salons important? | they were the central component when spreading ideas. |
Frederick the Great of Prussia | enlightenment despot |
Voltaire | religious & tolerance |
Montesquieu | separation of powers |
Rousseau | individual freedoms |
Beccaria | criminal justice |
Wollstonecraft | women's rights and equality |
How did the enlightenment thinkers and writers set the stage for the revolutionary movements? | They set the stage for the movements by making and coming up with new ideas and beliefs. Things that writers put in books and thinkers that came up with new ideas that spread all throughout the US giving us new ideas to make things better. |