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Impact of The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment challenged absolute rule and spread new ideas across Europe through salons, literacy, and cheap publications. Enlightenment thinkers inspired simpler, more elegant art forms focused on reason and nature. Composers created new classical styles like sonatas and symphonies. Economists like Adam Smith argued for free markets and capitalism based on private property and profit. During this period, encyclopedias collected and spread new political, scientific, and cultural ideas, furthering Enlightenment and revolutionary ideals. Some monarchs embraced Enlightenment ideals by granting more freedoms and rights to improve lives, like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. As these ideas spread, citizens began questioning authority and revolutions broke out seeking

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Impact of The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment challenged absolute rule and spread new ideas across Europe through salons, literacy, and cheap publications. Enlightenment thinkers inspired simpler, more elegant art forms focused on reason and nature. Composers created new classical styles like sonatas and symphonies. Economists like Adam Smith argued for free markets and capitalism based on private property and profit. During this period, encyclopedias collected and spread new political, scientific, and cultural ideas, furthering Enlightenment and revolutionary ideals. Some monarchs embraced Enlightenment ideals by granting more freedoms and rights to improve lives, like Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great. As these ideas spread, citizens began questioning authority and revolutions broke out seeking

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Name ________________________________

Date _____________________ Pd ________


The Impact of the Enlightenment
I. The Impact of the Enlightenment
A. Enlightenment thinkers challenged the ____________________________ of kings & argued for _________________ & rights
1. _____________ (discussion parties), high literacy rates & cheap _______________ helped spread new ideas across Europe
2. These theories inspired a variety of new ideas in _____________, music, __________________, economics, & government
B. Art
1. Enlightenment ideals of ___________________________ & reason gave rise to ________________________________ art
2. Art in the Enlightenment was simple, elegant, & focused on ____________________ styles
C. Music
1. Music composers created new, _______________________ styles of music known as ______________________________
a. Franz Joseph Haydn created the first ____________________________
b. Wolfgang Amadeus _____________________ set a new standard for originality
c. ____________________________ used ________________________ & range to move music beyond the classical style
2. Music became a _____________________ art that people went to _________________________ to hear
D. Economics

1. One of the most important Enlightenment ideas was the theory of ________________________ & laissez-faire economics
by Scottish professor _____________________________
a. Capitalism is an economic model based on _______________ ownership of property & desire to make _____________
b. ___________________________ is the idea that the economy thrives when the gov’t does not ___________________
with businesses & allows a _______________________________________ to exist
c. According to Adam Smith, price is determined by ______________________ & ______________________
E. Encyclopedia
1. During the Enlightenment, people throughout _____________________ & _________________________ began to study,
____________, & philosophize about new ideas
2. To collect these new ideas & make them accessible, ________________________________ created the first encyclopedia
a. Encyclopedia included ______________ & _________________ on a wide variety of political, scientific, & cultural ideas
b. Encyclopedia _____________________ the ideas of the Enlightenment & ____________________________ Revolution
F. Women
1. Most Europeans had a traditional view of women as ______________________, mothers, & not ______________ to men
2. But, new Enlightenment ideas inspired efforts to improve women’s ___________________
a. Madame Geoffrin hosted salons & _______________________________________
b. Some women, like ________________________________________________________, argued for more opportunities
for __________________________ & professions
G. Enlightened Despots (Kings)
1. Enlightenment philosophes attacked absolute kings like _______________________ & _____________________________
2. Most philosophes believed that the best form of gov’t was a _________________ monarchy that respected citizens’ rights
3. Some powerful monarchs known as _________________________________________________________ listened to new
ideas & tried to _______________________________ the lives of their citizens
a. Enlightenment despots favored religious ______________________, tax reform, reduced gov’t spending, & legal rights
b. Frederick the Great of Prussia granted religious freedom, abolished ______________________, & improved education
c. Catherine the Great frequently wrote to _______________________ & considered protecting the rights of her citizens
d. Joseph II of Austria granted freedom of _______________, press, religion & required peasants to be paid for their work
H. Revolutions
1. As the Enlightenment spread, citizens began ___________________________ the authority of their __________________
2. As a result, revolutionary wars broke out in ______________, ____________, & Latin America for independence & liberty

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