Timeline Part 2

by sweetchristianapeuro

You will return to your original group (if you cannot remember please ask) when you created the first timeline. Presentations of these will take place at the beginning 1/22 – 1/28. The countries  that must be covered in your group will change slightly this period.

England

France

HRE

Prussia

Russia

This will be part two and the years below will be covered.

1700-1750

1750-1800

This will include the same categories:

Ruler

Domestic

Cultural

Economic

International

Misc

Below is a blank chart to help get you started as to how the format will look like.

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Essay Prompt on “The Great Cat Massacre”

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France in the mid-18th century began to see “cracks” in the traditional social constructs of the ‘ancien regime’. Using Robert Darnton’s observations in his work The Great Cat Massacre examine the possible challenges to the traditional values and social hierarchy that possibly showed signs of a more dangerous event to come (Use both your readings to answer the question).

Study Guide East Europe – Enlightenment

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Hint for LEQ:

A Block:

  1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
  2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”
  3. Compare the views of Machiavelli, Rousseau and Locke on human nature and the relationship between government and the governed.
  4. Trace religious toleration as a political practice and philosophical idea from the mid 16th Century through the Enlightenment.
  5. Analyze the extent to which Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria advanced and did not advance Enlightenment ideals during their reigns.

D Block:

  1. Analyze the different ideas held by Voltaire concerning the roles of women in Europe.
  2. Analyze Voltaire’s views on Hobbes, Leibniz, and Bayle’s ideas in “Candide.”

3. “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid the night God said, ‘Let Newton be,’ and all was     light.”The couplet above was Alexander Pope’s way of expressing the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and Christianity. What was the effect of seventeenth century science on Christianity, and how did each react to the other.

4. Analyze the ways in which specific intellectuals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defined the idea of the social contract.

5. Compare and contrast the political ideas of Hobbes and Locke