Enlightenment and Revolution

2. an Italian philosophe, wrote about people’s civil rights, the rights they deserved as citizens of a city or country.
3. the most brilliant and influential of the philosophes.
9. European art of the 1600s and early 1700s, which was characterized by a grand, ornate design.
10. an English philosopher, scientist, and historian best known for his political philosophy.
11. an English philosopher and political theorist.
12. the relation of faith to reason, the existence and simplicity of God, the purpose of theology and metaphysics, and the problems of knowledge, of universals, and of individuation.
14. The ruler most admired by the philosophes was Catherine II of Russia.
15. 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.
16. large drawing rooms, these hostesses held regular social gatherings.
18. Through reason and rational thinking, they believed, truth could be discovered.
19. is a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
20. explain the legal and intellectual ownership of assets and resources and one can make use of the same.

1. consists of the right of individuals to participate in government by voting and by holding public office.
4. Some monarchs embraced the new ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit.
5. was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
6. influential French writer, who devoted himself to the study of political liberty.
7. developing a written plan for running a state or country
8. improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife.
13. Social critcs of this period.
17. This and subsequent trade laws prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain.