Enlightenment

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  1. 1. Bacon Bacon, during the enlightenment era, now, and forever, is a symbol for science and rational thought.
  2. 3. Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher and scientist, was one of the key figures in the political debates of the Enlightenment period
  3. 7. The national Enlightenment in the Russian Empire differed from its Western European counterpart in that it promoted further modernization of all aspects of Russian life and was concerned with abolishing the institution of serfdom in Russia.
  4. 11. Variations Instead, during the tide of "national salvation and revolution," they were simplistically rejected as the merely worrisome garbage of the bourgeois class.
  5. 15. Broadly speaking, Enlightenment science greatly valued empiricism and rational thought, and was embedded with the Enlightenment ideal of advancement and progress.
  6. 18. deficient in mental or spiritual enlightenment
  7. 19. Delacroix an impressionist whose paintings portrayed emotion, nature, love, religion and nationalism
  8. 20. Academies By the middle of the eighteenth century the number of learned academies and societies in Europe and its overseas colonies was in the hundreds, and many academies had come and gone in the preceding two centuries.
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  1. 2. of the United States a document that is built on the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers which grants citizens rights and freedoms
  2. 4. Everyone was open with each other during this time of period.
  3. 5. of Rights the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution that included the 5 freedoms and the protection of basic rights
  4. 6. Revolution A war that earned the colonies freedom and independence from Britain.
  5. 8. he Enlightenment, a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
  6. 9. Locke argued that human nature was mutable and that knowledge was gained through accumulated experience rather than by accessing some sort of outside truth.
  7. 10. Revolution The Glorious Revolution of 1688 is a part of the Enlightenment due to its focus on the ideals of liberty, constitutional government, and the rights of the people
  8. 12. Republic of Letters The Republic of Letters (Respublica literaria) is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment, or philosophes as they were called in France.
  9. 13. de Cervantes Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those "vain and empty books of chivalry" as well as to provide some merry, original, and sometimes prudent material for his readers' entertainment.
  10. 14. Individualism was another prominent theme of the Enlightenment
  11. 16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe
  12. 17. Diderot the author of the Encyclopedia which contained Enlightenment views