Chapter 14
Creoles in Spanish and Portuguese colonies were drawn to Enlightenment ideas because:
Enlightenment ideas helped to justify their dissatisfaction with colonial rule.
How did Captain Cook's voyages to Australia reflect Enlightenment ideas?
They included scientists to describe and classify Australia's fauna, flora, people, and natural features.
How did Asante kings publicly display their connection to the gods?
by carrying golden spears, maces, and other symbols of power
As European colonies in the Americas became more prosperous and settled over the course of the eighteenth century:
colonists sought to copy European social and material culture as closely as they could.
Where did Enlightenment ideas circulate most broadly?
commercial centers and port cities
Francis Bacon's method of scientific inquiry asserted that:
conducting experiments was the only way that humans could begin to understand the workings of nature.
Peninsulars were:
people born in Spain or Portugal who were living in their American colonies.
The most popular books published in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China were:
study guides for civil service examinations.
West African rulers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were able to support high levels of artistic achievement because of wealth derived from:
the Atlantic slave trade
The U.S. Declaration of Independence is an example of what intellectual tradition?
the Enlightenment
