MWHH Unit 4 Week 7/Disc 2 Free Response Questions PDF
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This document contains questions on the Enlightenment, focusing on historical events, philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and different types of influence. The questions cover the impact of the Renaissance, the Thirty Years War, and the English Civil War on the Enlightenment, and look at the lives of famous thinkers like Adam Smith, examining their contributions to the period.
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MWHH Unit 4 Week 7/Disc 2 **Free Response** 1. Why was the Renaissance a major influence on the Enlightenment? 2. Why did the Thirty Years War and English Civil War influence the Enlightenment? 3. How did a Social Contract function according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau? According to him...
MWHH Unit 4 Week 7/Disc 2 **Free Response** 1. Why was the Renaissance a major influence on the Enlightenment? 2. Why did the Thirty Years War and English Civil War influence the Enlightenment? 3. How did a Social Contract function according to Jean-Jacques Rousseau? According to him, what made a government's rule legitimate? 4. What was the difference between Thomas Hobbes' and John Locke's view on what a good government is? 5. What was Adam Smith's view on how the economy should function? 6. How did Montesquieu's ideas influence the American Constitution? 7. What were the similarities between the *philosophes,* such as Diderot and Voltaire? 8. How did women contribute to the Enlightenment? What new ideas regarding the roles of women came from female Enlightenment *philosophes*? 9. What events and places helped make Paris become the center of the Enlightenment? 10. What would be a consequence of the Enlightenment being popular amongst the bourgeoisie in Paris? **Identification** Thirty Years War English Civil War Social Contract Thomas Hobbes Natural/Inalienable Rights Montesquieu Adam Smith *Philosophes* Diderot and Voltaire Mary Wollstonecraft *Salons* John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau
