Unit 6 Enlightenment & Revolutions

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What was the Enlightenment built on? Options: The Age of Revolutions, The Scientific Revolution, The Protestant Reformation, The Agricultural Revolution

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The Scientific Revolution

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Who believed that the collective good should be valued over the individual?

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Rousseau

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Who believed in natural individual rights that should be protected by the government above all else?

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Locke

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Who used wit and satire to criticize the monarchy, catholic church, and nobility?

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Voltaire

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The ideas of Enlightenment thinkers can be directly linked to the development of

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revolutions across the world.

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Which of the following would be used by a monarch to justify their absolute power? enlightenment thinking, Protestant reform, divine right of kings, Locke's social contract

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divine right of kings

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What did Louis XIV and Czar Peter the Great do to protect their absolute power?

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replaced nobility and government officials with controllable commoners

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The Glorious Revolution and the creation of the English Bill of Rights led Great Britain to develop what type of government?

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constitutional monarchy

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What was the significance of the Storming of the Bastille?

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The common people's protest led to the destruction of an important symbol of the king and his power.

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The French Revolution resulted in

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political power for the middle class.