Ages of Absolutism and Enlightenment
Test Review Terms
Age of Absolutism
Absolute monarchy
Divine Right
Mercantilism
Louis XIV
Fronde
“I am the state”
Versailles
Court Life
Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Progress
Universal Social Laws
State of Nature
Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes (know his views on human nature, state of nature, and the purpose/form of government)
English Civil War
Leviathan
John Locke (know his views on human nature, state of nature, and the purpose/form of government)
Glorious Revolution
Two Treatises on Government
Philosophes
Baron de Montesquieu
The Spirit of the Laws
Francois-Marie Arouet – “Voltaire”
Treatise on Tolerance
Denis Diderot
Encyclopedia
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
Laissez faire
Salons
Madame Geoffrin
Rococo
Enlightened Despot
Frederick II
Reforms:
View on government: