Enlightenment

Enlightened despots included all of the following monarchs except

• Louis XIV

• Catherine the Great

• Joseph II

• Frederick the Great

Chaos and instability in Europe during the 17th century caused what type of government to emerge?

• democracy

• absolute monarchy

• limited monarchy

• republic

First country where a head rolled because of the ideas of the Enlightenment

• France

• US

• Spain

• England

History's BEST example of an absolute monarch

• Henry IV

• Peter the Great

• Charles II

• Louis XIV

New intellectual movement that stressed new ideas based on liberty, progress, reason

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

• Protestant Reformation

Argued people have a right to overthrow a government that does not protect their natural rights

• Hobbes

• Diderot

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

Created by Diderot

• Candide

• Leviathan

• Encyclopedia

• heliocentric theory

went against the Church's beliefs about dissection of human body

• Voltaire

• Jefferson

• Vesalius

• Harvey

believed that civilization corrupted good people and direct democracy was best government

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

three branches of government with checks and balances is best was the idea of

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft