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Chapter 23: The Age of European Enlightenment
(Major Assessment due January 6, 2015)

Directions: As you peruse Chapter 23 please answer the following guided reading questions. Please answer
each question or define each term fully.
Section 1- The Scientific Revolution (p. 496-499)
1) Explain the Scientific Revolution? How did these ideas influence the mentality or mindset about
knowledge and nature? Define the Ptolemaic System.

3) Analyzing what you have read, what can you deduce was the relationship between this new scientific
movement and existing ideas? (i.e. the church)

3a) What does your textbook state about the following historical figures contributions/ideas and
significance? Record your answers in the chart below.
Scientist
Contribution/ Ideas
Significance
Nicolaus
Copernicus
Tycho Brahe

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Francis Bacon

Ren Des Cartes

Isaac Newton

Section 2, 3, 4 - The Enlightenment (p. 499-500), The Enlightenment and Religion (p. 501-502) & The
Enlightenment and Society (p. 503-505)
What does your textbook state about the following thinkers? Record your answers in the chart below.
Enlightenment
Thinker
Voltaire

Diderot

Adam Smith

Montesquieu

Rousseau

Wollstonecraft

Locke

Ideas/Beliefs

Example of Work

Significance/Impact

4) What was the relationship between the philosophes and the church like?

5) Define deism. (Include main characteristics, who was involved, and why it was
important).

6) What role did women play in the spread of the Enlightenment? Did the Enlightenment affect these
women? How or how not?

Section 5- Enlightened Absolutism (p. 505-508)

7) What was enlightened absolutism?

8) How did Joseph II of Austria respond to the Enlightenment? What were the outcomes of this response?

9) How did Catherine the Great of Russia respond? What were the outcomes of her response? Did they differ
from Joseph IIs?

10) Summarize the impact the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment had on the world.