AP European History Chapter 17 Quiz
A less brutal approach to justice and punishment in the eighteenth century is associated with
Beccaria.
The leader of the Physiocrats and their advocacy of natural economic laws was
François Quesnay.
Deism is the belief that
God created the universe but does not actively run it
The French painter whose work represented the continuing appeal of Neoclassicism was
Jacques-Louis David.
The English writer who argued in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies that women should become better educated was
Mary Astell.
The strongest statement and vindication of women's rights during the Enlightenment was made by
Mary Wollstonecraft.
John Locke's tabula rasa refers to
a blank mind.
According to The Social Contract, the "general will" was
a social consensus to which the individual must bow.
The religious movement that came to be known as Methodism
became a separate and independent sect from the Anglican Church.
The purpose of Diderot's Encyclopedia, according to him, was to
change the general way of thinking.
High culture in eighteenth-century Europe was characterized by the
enormous impact of the publishing industry.
The Baroque-Rococo artistic style of the eighteenth century was
evident in the masterpieces of Balthasar Neumann.
A cheap and popular alcoholic drink in eighteenth century England was
gin.
Pogroms were
instances of massacring and looting of Jewish communities.
The growth of reading and publishing in the eighteenth century was aided and characterized by the development of
magazines for the general public.
Eighteenth-century writers, especially in England, used this new form of literary expression to attack the hypocrisies of the era and provide sentimental entertainment to growing numbers of readers:
novels.
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu argued that the best political system in a modern society is one where
power is divided between the three branches of government.
According to Rousseau, the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes was
private property.
Rousseau's influential novel, Émile, deals with these key Enlightenment themes:
proper child rearing and human education.
Isaac Newton and John Locke
provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society.
Voltaire was best known for his criticism of
religious intolerance.
Adam Smith believed that government
should not interfere in people's economic decisions.
In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,
still played a major role in social and spiritual areas.
An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
the Marquise du Chatelet.
Enlightened thinkers can be understood as secularists because they strongly recommended
the application of the scientific method to the analysis and understanding of all aspects of human life.
European intellectual life in the eighteenth century was marked by
the emergence of secularization and a search to find the natural laws governing human life.
The belief in natural laws underlying all areas of human life led to
the emergence of the "science of man."
The French philosophes mostly included people from
the nobility and the middle class.
The Rococo artist Antoine Watteau emphasized
the pleasure and joy of aristocratic life.
Montesquieu's Persian Letters
was a method that allowed him to criticize the Catholic Church and the French monarchy.
The French philosophes
were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality.
The Jews of eighteenth-century Europe
were restricted to ghettos in all European states.