
The Enlightenment
Quiz by Erik Noren
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Madame Geoffrin encouraged the arts and sciences by hosting social events in which city?
This philosophe's ideas on the separation of powers helped contribute to the U.S. constitution.
The Enlightenment Era is often associated with which century?
This new kind of place promoted conversation and debate during the Enlightenment.
This intellectual is known for his Wealth of Nations and as father of economics.
The Enlightenment continued the ideals of this other movement that began a century earlier.
This became a somewhat popular belief during the 1700s about how a creator made the universe, often referencing the "wound up clock" theory.
This Enlightenment thinker argued that the subjection of women to men is simply arbitrary power.
Which combination would have best made you an Enlightenment thinker?
This thinker composed his encyclopedia, designed to hold the world's knowledge and to educate the public.
The Philosophes were primarily from which country?
He argued that people were capable of reason and living their own moral lives.