The Enlightenment

What is another name for Enlightenment?

• Age of Reason

• Age of intelligence

• Age of non-religion

• Age of Science

The ____ were economic thinkers in eighteenth-century France who developed the first complete system of economics.

• physiocrats

• philosophers

I believed laissez-fair worked in the business approach, not economic. Capitalism is the best economic approach!

• Quesnay

• Smith

• Locke

• Rousseau

I believe that humans are born unhappy and that we need a government, an absolute monarch, to protect us.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Lock

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

I believe that humans are born good and have natural right (life, liberty, and property).

• Diderot

• Rousseau

• Lock

• Voltaire

What is a Salon?

• A place to discuss ideas safely

• Where you go to get your hair done

• A book shop for books about philosophies

• A city in France

Answer explanation

At these meetings, philosophers would gather to discuss politics, philosophy, and current issues. These discussions allowed the writers greater freedom to spread their words.

What country reaching the highest development during the Age of Reason?

• Germany

• UK

• France

• America

Answer explanation

Many reasons why they were: 1. France coined the term philosopher

2. they had a unified language in the educated class

3. they were the cultural center of Europe 4. French intellectuals weren't tortured or executed for their works, unlike other writers of Eastern and Central Europe.

I wanted to limit royal absolutism and instead create a government with three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

I critiqued other Enlightenment thinks, disagreed with the French government, religious intolerance, and unjust taxation in my Encyclopedia book collection.

• Locke

• Diderot

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Which idea did John Locke NOT believe in?

• Social Contract

• Consent of the governed

• Right of revolution

• Royal Absolutism

Answer explanation

Thomas Hobbes believed in Royal Absolutism, meaning the people give up their rights and can't rebel against their government. The exact opposite of what Locke wanted.