The Enlightenment & Encyclopedia

The Enlightenment & Encyclopedia

Multiple Choice

The Enlightenment is also known as the "Century of..."

• Flash

• Lights

• Minds

• Electricity

Characteristics

• Intellectual movement that began in the 18th century

• It ended the era of superstition and ignorance

• It opposed religious authority & absolutism

• It influenced revolutions and people began demanding civil rights and privileges

Multiple Choice

The Enlightenment considered REASON as the basis for progress?

Some Enlightenment thinkers were...

Voltaire

Montesquieu

John Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Multiple Select

The Enlightenment thinkers promoted rights to...

• intolerance

• property

• fight

• liberty

• equality

Fill in the Blanks

Then between 1751 and 1772, Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert created the...

Multiple Select

The monarchs created the Enlightened Despotism, which is a combination of...

• Absolutism

• Freedom

• Equality

• Enlightenment

• All of them

The Enlightened Despotism

Frederick II (Prussia), Catherine II (Russia), Maria Theresa and Joseph II (Austria), Carlos III (Spain), took the ideas of the Enlightenment to educate the population but restricting freedom in order to remain the center of power.