Ap euro ch 16 p 2

Madame du Chatelet, Voltaire's longtime companion

Believed that women's limited contribution to science was a result of unequal education

Why did Leopold II cancel his brother joseph's radical edicts in the early 1790s

Leopold was attempting to restore order in austria

Which powers participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late eighteenth century?

Prussia, Russia, and Austria

What was the core concept of the Enlightenment?

The methods of natural science should be used to examine all aspects of life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that

Women were best suited to a passive role in social relations

In historical and critical dictionary, Pierre bayle demonstrated that

all knowledge can be questioned and doubted.

The idea of the public sphere that emerged during the Enlightenment refers to

an idealized space where individuals gathered to discuss social and political issues.

According to its editor, the fundamental goal of the Encyclopedia was to

change the general way of thinking

Voltaire was a deist who viewed God as akin to a

clockmaker who set the universe in motion and then ceased to intervene in human affairs

A striking feature of the salons was that

philosophes, nobles, and members of the upper middle class intermingled.

The enlightened policies of Frederick the Great included

simplifying Prussia's laws.

What was the republic of letters

A cosmopolitan network involving Western Europe and its colonies as well as Eastern Europe and Russia