Day 25 Spread of Enlightenment

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Day 25 Spread of Enlightenment

• Warm Up Symphony No. 5 Beethoven
• Objective understand a problem solving approach
  to governments
• Standard 102.1
• Homework 202-205

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Salons

• Social Gathering of Educated Elite- most famous
  of which were run by Marie Therese Geoffrin
• Encyclopedia- created by Denis Diderot -Ideas of
  all the most enlightened thinkerswhere you could
  find all knowledge
• First Printed Newspaper in London 1702
• Banned by the Church and Louis XVI

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Art and Literature

• Baroque to neoclassical (ornate to logic)
• Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven
• Literature Fictional stories with depth

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Enlightened Despots

• Rulers who used reason to rule
• Fredrick vs. Louis XVI
• The Monarch exist to serve the state
• I am the State
• Joseph II of Austria- ends serfdom
• Catherine attempted reform but after a rebellion
  crushed the serfs

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Russian Expansion

• Russia gets black sea access from Ottomans
• Poland disappears under Russia, Prussia and
  Austria

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Summary Questions

• 1) Who abolished serfdom in Austria?
• 2) Who considered themselves to be enlightened
  but became angry after a rebellion of serfs, and
  retaliated by giving all power to nobility in
  Russia?
• 3) Who was the Prussian ruler that used
  enlightenment ideas to rule?
• 4) Who developed the first encyclopedia?
• 5) What is a salon? Who ran the most famous of
  these in Paris?

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Extra Credit/Make Up

• Create a Biographical Briefing for Voltaire,
  Beccari, Machievelli, John Calvin or any other
  thinker that purposed how governments should be
  formed before or during the enlightenment (use
  other briefings as model)

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Free Write Paragraph

• If you were the president. Which one of the panel
  members would you choose to be chief political
  advisor. Why?