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1 The Enlightenment Spreads
Chapter 6 Section 3

2 Enlightenment Spreads
Books Magazines Newspapers Pamphlets Political songs Word of Mouth All helped influence anything from art to government

3 Paris Huge center for the Enlightenment

4 Salons A social gathering, typically held in a wealthy home
Intellects met to discuss ideas

5 Marie-Therese Geoffrin
Influential Salon Hostess She helped finance Denis Diderot’s first Encyclopedia project.

6 Encyclopedia Large set of books in which many leading scholars contributed articles. Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas to all educated people around Europe.

7 Baroque Dominated the style of art in the 1600s and 1700s.
Elaborate, grand, ornate design

8 Neoclassical Artistic style of the late 1700s
Bringing back classical ideas from Greece and Rome

9 Music Classical Music emerged Mozart Beethoven

10 Writing Writing also changed Everyday language Entertaining stories
Carefully crafted plots Suspense Explored characters’ thoughts and feelings

11 Enlightenment Despots
Despot means “absolute ruler” Many thinkers of the period believed monarchs that respected the people was the best government Rulers who tried to do this became known as Enlightenment Despots

12 Frederick the Great of Prussia
Granted many religious freedoms Reduced censorship Improved education Abolished the use of torture

13 Joseph II of Austria Legal reforms Freedom of the press
Freedom of worship Ended serfdom and ordered peasants be paid cash for their labor

14 Catherine the Great of Russia
Formed a commission to… Religious toleration Abolished torture and capital punishment Limited reforms actually passed Greatly increased Russia’s size


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