This homework is for both period 7 & 8. This homework will not be accepted late. Handing in this homework at any time after your classtime with me, will result in a zero.
Read Chapter 22 Section 3 in your textbook and answer the following questions. Answers should be on a separate sheet of paper in blue or black ink or typed and printed.
Due: Tuesday 12/9
1. Define the following terms:
a. salon
b. Baroque
c. neoclassical
d. enlightened despot
e. Catherine the Great
2. Why did enlightenment ideas spread so quickly? What does this say about their appeal?
3. What advantages did salons have over earlier forms of communication in spreading ideas?
4. How does neoclassicism reflect the ideas of order and reason?
5. Why did novels become so popular in the 18th century?
6. Why did the enlightened despots undertake reforms?
7. Why is it important for rulers to balance their philosophical goals with practical concerns about support?
8. Why were most of the reforms applied to middle and upper classes? How did rulers view the peasants?
9. How accurately does the term enlightened despot describe Catherine the Great? Explain.
10. In what ways were the enlightened despots less than true reformers? Cite examples from the text.
11. How did the statement by Prussian ruler Frederick the Great that a ruler is only "the first servant of the state" support enlightenment ideas about government?
