Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-economic liberalism

Accepted Answer

Economic liberalism is a political and e

Question 2

Who made the strongest statement about women's rights during the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

A) Mary Wollstonecraft 
B) Beatrice Williams 
C) Mary Astell 
D) Princess Amelia of Austria 
E) Maria Cavendish 
A) Mary Wollstonecraft 
B) Beatrice Williams 
C) Mary Astell 
D) Princess Amelia of Austria 
E) Maria Cavendish

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-Cesare Beccaria

Accepted Answer

Cesare Beccaria was an Italian criminolo

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration

Accepted Answer

Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration, also

Question 5

Who were the philosophes? What common characteristics did they have?

Accepted Answer

The philosophes were a group of intellec

Question 6

Discuss the significance and the influence of John Locke and Isaac Newton on the Enlightenment.

Accepted Answer

John Locke and Isaac Newton were two inf

Question 7

Please define the following key terms.
-Physiocrats

Accepted Answer

The Physiocrats were a group of French e

Question 8

Please define the following key terms.
-laissez-faire

Accepted Answer

The answer of Please define the following key terms.
-laissez-faire...

Question 9

Baron Paul d'Holbach believed that

Accepted Answer

A) emotion was more important than reason. 
B) traditional values were always best. 
C) religious revival was Europe's only hope. 
D) God was like a clockmaker. 
E) God did not exist. 
A) emotion was more important than reason. 
B) traditional values were always best. 
C) religious revival was Europe's only hope. 
D) God was like a clockmaker. 
E) God did not exist.

Question 10

Please define the following key terms.
-separation of powers

Accepted Answer

Separation of powers is a fundamental co

Question 11

Please define the following key terms.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Accepted Answer

The answer of Please define the following key terms.
-Wolfgang Amadeus...

Question 12

Supporters of polygenesis believed that

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A) there were a number of separate human species. 
B) there was only one human species. 
C) the earth had been created by more than one god. 
D) truth could only be discovered through the embrace of all religions. 
E) racial differences were largely an illusion. 
A) there were a number of separate human species. 
B) there was only one human species. 
C) the earth had been created by more than one god. 
D) truth could only be discovered through the embrace of all religions. 
E) racial differences were largely an illusion.

Question 13

Which statement best describes the French philosophes?

Accepted Answer

A) They flourished in an atmosphere of government support. 
B) They sought no extension of Enlightenment to other disciplines beyond philosophy. 
C) They were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality. 
D) They supported state censorship of ideas contrary to their own. 
E) They were widely influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau and his emphasis upon emotions. 
A) They flourished in an atmosphere of government support. 
B) They sought no extension of Enlightenment to other disciplines beyond philosophy. 
C) They were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality. 
D) They supported state censorship of ideas contrary to their own. 
E) They were widely influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau and his emphasis upon emotions.

Question 14

Who advocated natural economic laws as the leader of the Physiocrats?

Accepted Answer

A) Denis Diderot 
B) Adam Smith 
C) Francois Quesnay 
D) Cesare Beccaria 
E) David Hume 
A) Denis Diderot 
B) Adam Smith 
C) Francois Quesnay 
D) Cesare Beccaria 
E) David Hume

Question 15

Bach and Handel perfected the ____ musical style.

Accepted Answer

A) Baroque 
B) classical 
C) romantic 
D) secular 
E) Rococo 
A) Baroque 
B) classical 
C) romantic 
D) secular 
E) Rococo

Question 16

More than 90 percent of Europe's Catholic population went to Mass on Easter Sunday.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-reason

Accepted Answer

It seems like there might be a misunders

Question 18

What best describes the Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A) It was confined to France. 
B) It was best expressed in the architectural works of Baron d'Holbach. 
C) It was most evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann. 
D) It was characterized by strict geometric patterns and an emphasis on power. 
E) It was more severe and mathematical than the Baroque. 
A) It was confined to France. 
B) It was best expressed in the architectural works of Baron d'Holbach. 
C) It was most evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann. 
D) It was characterized by strict geometric patterns and an emphasis on power. 
E) It was more severe and mathematical than the Baroque.

Question 19

After John Wesley's death, Methodism became an integral component of the Anglican Church.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Please define the following key terms.
-gin

Accepted Answer

Gin is a type of distilled alcoholic bev

Exam 17: The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

Please define the following key terms. -economic liberalism

Who made the strongest statement about women's rights during the Enlightenment?

Please define the following key terms. -Cesare Beccaria

Please define the following key terms. -Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration

Who were the philosophes? What common characteristics did they have?

Discuss the significance and the influence of John Locke and Isaac Newton on the Enlightenment.

Please define the following key terms. -Physiocrats

Please define the following key terms. -laissez-faire

Baron Paul d'Holbach believed that

Please define the following key terms. -separation of powers

Please define the following key terms. -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Supporters of polygenesis believed that

Which statement best describes the French philosophes?

Who advocated natural economic laws as the leader of the Physiocrats?

Bach and Handel perfected the ____ musical style.

More than 90 percent of Europe's Catholic population went to Mass on Easter Sunday.

Please define the following key terms. -reason

What best describes the Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century?

After John Wesley's death, Methodism became an integral component of the Anglican Church.

Please define the following key terms. -gin

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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