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The Enlightenment Spreads . Chapter 6 Section 3. Enlightenment Spreads. Books Magazines Newspapers Pamphlets Political songs Word of Mouth All helped influence anything from art to government. Paris. Huge center for the Enlightenment. Salons.
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The Enlightenment Spreads Chapter 6 Section 3
Enlightenment Spreads • Books • Magazines • Newspapers • Pamphlets • Political songs • Word of Mouth • All helped influence anything from art to government
Paris • Huge center for the Enlightenment
Salons • A social gathering, typically held in a wealthy home • Intellects met to discuss ideas
Marie-Therese Geoffrin • Influential Salon Hostess • She helped finance Denis Diderot’s first Encyclopedia project.
Encyclopedia • Large set of books in which many leading scholars contributed articles. • Helped to spread Enlightenment ideas to all educated people around Europe.
Baroque • Dominated the style of art in the 1600s and 1700s. • Elaborate, grand, ornate design
Neoclassical • Artistic style of the late 1700s • Bringing back classical ideas from Greece and Rome
Music • Classical Music emerged • Mozart • Beethoven
Writing • Writing also changed • Everyday language • Entertaining stories • Carefully crafted plots • Suspense • Explored characters’ thoughts and feelings
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
Frederick the Great of Prussia • Granted many religious freedoms • Reduced censorship • Improved education • Abolished the use of torture
Joseph II of Austria • Legal reforms • Freedom of the press • Freedom of worship • Ended serfdom and ordered peasants be paid cash for their labor
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