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Day 25 Spread of Enlightenment

Learn about salons, encyclopedia, enlightened despots, and Russian expansion during the Enlightenment era. Dive into Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and grasp problem-solving approaches in governance.

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Day 25 Spread of Enlightenment

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  1. Day 25 Spread of Enlightenment Warm Up: Symphony No. 5 Beethoven Objective: understand a problem solving approach to governments Standard: 10:2.1 Homework: 202-205

  2. Salons • Social Gathering of Educated Elite- most famous of which were run by Marie Therese Geoffrin • Encyclopedia- created by Denis Diderot -Ideas of all the most enlightened thinkers…where you could find all knowledge • First Printed Newspaper in London 1702 • Banned by the Church and Louis XVI

  3. Art and Literature • Baroque to neoclassical (ornate to logic) • Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven • Literature: Fictional stories with depth

  4. Enlightened Despots • Rulers who used reason to rule • Fredrick vs. Louis XVI “ The Monarch exist to serve the state” “ I am the State” • Joseph II of Austria- ends serfdom • Catherine attempted reform but after a rebellion crushed the serfs

  5. Russian Expansion • Russia gets black sea access from Ottomans • Poland disappears under Russia, Prussia and Austria

  6. Summary Questions 1) Who abolished serfdom in Austria? 2) Who considered themselves to be enlightened but became angry after a rebellion of serfs, and retaliated by giving all power to nobility in Russia? 3) Who was the Prussian ruler that used enlightenment ideas to rule? 4) Who developed the first encyclopedia? 5) What is a salon? Who ran the most famous of these in Paris?

  7. Extra Credit/Make Up: • Create a Biographical Briefing for Voltaire, Beccari, Machievelli, John Calvin or any other thinker that purposed how governments should be formed before or during the enlightenment (use other briefings as model)

  8. Free Write Paragraph • If you were the president. Which one of the panel members would you choose to be chief political advisor. Why?

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