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Enlightenment

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Author of Wealth of Nations   Adam Smith  
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Wrote the General Will & Discourse on the Arts and Science   Rousseau  
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Wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women   Mary Wollstonecraft  
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Published 28 volume set of encyclopedias   Diderot  
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Prison fortress in Paris   Bastille  
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Composed coronation music for George II   Handel  
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Primary author of the Declaration of Independance   Jefferson  
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Art style most associated with Louis XIV's era   Baroque  
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Said all men entitled to life, liberty and property   Locke  
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Said life was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short   Hobbes  
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Mozart was his pupil   Haydn  
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Famous salon in Paris   Rue St. Honore  
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18th C book supporting laissez faire economics   Wealth of Nations  
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Handel's famous piece with Hallelujah Chorus   Messiah  
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Hobbes book supporting absolutism   Leviathan  
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Don Giovanni among his many compositions   Mozart  
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German musician who had over 1000 compositions   Bach  
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Term for the philosophs of economics   Physiocrats  
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Voltaire's book criticizing religion politics, etc   Candide  
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Work of Locke which dealt with the Social Contract   Two Treaties on Government  
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King of England during American Revolution   George III  
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Term for intellectuals of the enlightenment   Philosophes  
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Religion which compared God to clock maker   Deism  
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Handel famous for this type of composition   Oratorio  
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1707 law joining England and Scotland   Act of Union  
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French term meaning "let do"   laisses-faire  
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Conservative British political party in the 17th & 18th C   Tories  
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Author of Robinson Crusoe   Daniel Defoe  
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Born in 1694. He was a French writer with the pen name of Francois Marie Arouet .   Voltaire  
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Liberal political party in the 17th & 18th C   Whigs  
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Book about one stranded on an island with family   Robinson Crusoe  
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Month, day & year Declaration of Independence went into effect   July 4, 1776  
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