AP Euro Ch. 17
Fredrick the Great
1 "first servant of the state" 2 efficient government 3 religious toleration 4 education reform 5 legal system reform 6 gets the nobles to agree with him by giving serfs to their liking 7 Sans Souci Palace
Joseph 2
1 Most Enlightened 2 encourages the arts 3 Edicts of Toleration 4 abolished serfdom 5 education reform 6 freedom of press 7 improve agriculture and crop rotation
Catherine the Great
1 Only Temporarialy Enlightened 2 Continues Peter the Great's westernization 3 some religious toleration 4 attempt to codify law 5 Pugachev Rebellion 6 expansion at cost of Ottoman and Poland 7 serf conditions worse
Maria Theresa
1 church under state control: political move 2 bureaucracy strengthened 3. some improvements for peasants
Queen Christian of Sweden
1632-1654 Encouraged intellectual discussion father was Gustavus Adolphus. people came to her court investigated religions wanted to convert to Catholicism but couldn't stay on thrown. converts and moves to Ro
Pragmatic Sanction
1713 Charles VI is emporer of Austria didn't have male heirs and wants his daughter accepted says that upon his death, Maria Theresa inherits had to bribe people to accept
Pugachev Rebellion
1733 Was a cossack leads rebellion to make himself czar and free the serfs put down by army captured and brought to St. Petersburg Catherine slows reforms
War of Austrian Succession
1740-1748 1 Fredrick Great invades Silesia 2 Prussia, France, Spain vs. Austria, England 3 King George's War in America 4 Treaty of Aix la Chapelle
Seven Years War
1756-1763 1 French Indian War in America 2 Austria wants Silesia back 3 Britain and France arguing about overseas 4 Austria, France, Russia vs. England, Prussia 5 Treaty of Paris 1763
Partition of Poland
1772-1795 Russia, Austria, Prussia settle disputes through Polish lands
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith Mercanitlism Laissez Fair regulated by natural law supply and demand and competition
Laissez Faire
Adam Smith hands off, leave alone, the government keeps away from economy
On the Structure of Human Body
Andreas Vesalius
Conversations of the Plurality of Worlds
Bernard de Fontelle Tried to explain astronomy simply
The System of Nature
Carl Von Linne Nature is organized into a God-given hierarchy
On Crimes and Punishments
Cessare Beccaria Right to a trial Innocent until proven guilty
Progress of the Human Mind
Condorcet Progress in society leads to opitimism and can lead to perfection
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Copernicus
Encyclopedia
D'Alembert and Diderot All the phiosophes ideas compiled in one
Tycho Brahe
Danish nobleman with most advanced labratory
Aristotelian World View
Earth is at center of universe God keeps everything moving Christian speheres
Francis Bacon
Empiricism
Treaty of Paris 1763
England gets all the territory in N. America England gets upperhand in India Prussia keeps Silesia
Robert Boyle
Founder of chemistry
Economic Table
Francois Quesnay Wealth is based on land and agriculture production not on gold need to have high crop yields to be successful questioned mercantilism
Treaty of Aix La Chapelle
Fredrick keeps Silesia England keeps N. America land Prussia is major power Maria Theresa stays
Dialogue on the 2 chief systems of the world
Galileo four moons of Jupiter experimental method
Dare to Know
Immanuel Kant Have to want to learn and be educated to discover
Baruch Spinoza
Jewish philosophe who said God and nature were 2 names for same thing
The New Astronomy
Johannes Kepler Developed 3 new laws of planetary motion orbits are elliptical not circular
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke Tabula Rasa everyone is born with a blank slate and has the potential for education
Second Treatise of Civil Government
John Locke likes glorious revolution government and people have a contract gov. protects people and people support the gov. life, liberty, property
Edicts of Toleration
Joseph 2 1712-1782 toleration patent religious freedom for Jews and Protestants closes contemplative orders: didn't contribute to the state
Of Cannibals
Montaigne it's ok to ask questions and be skeptical
Spirit of the Laws
Montesquie Separation of powers: judicial, executive, legislative
Persian Letters
Montesquie attacks the government of France through a story book
Mathematicl Principles of Natural Philosophy
Newton Law of universal gravitation
Historical Critical Dictionary
Pierre Bayle
Emile
Rousseau Best way to learn is through life experiences not a classroom childhood is special and different than adulthood
David Hume
Scotish philosophe who questioned the power of reason
Voltaire
Using Newton's ideas, developed that the world works like a clock empiricism
Rationalism
accepting reason or intellect as a true source of knowledge
Diplomatic Revolution
alliances changing Austria and France vs. Prussia and England
Rene Descartes
believed the world can be reduced to matter and mind: the physical and spiritual Cartesian Dualism
William Harvey
discovered circulation of blood through the body
Free Trade
do away with taxes of exports and imports
Empiricism
emphasis on sensory experience as a source of knowledge
salons
formal drawing rooms aristocrats and upper middle class met to discuss the ideas of Englightenment. hosted by women
New "faith"
god is reason, highest power is rationalism ritual is science and scientific method apostles are the philosophes
Mme Geofrrin
held many salons
Perfection
human perfection is an attainable girl Renaissance humanists wanted to imitate the greats not surpass them
Economic Liberalism
late 1700's Government not involved in economy was a liberal view at the time
Deism
new religious attitude there is
Newtonian World View
our universe operates according to precise mathematical laws logical, rational, reason works like a machine
Mme Du Chatlet
translated some of Newton into laymne terms