❏ Denis Diderot - Created the Encyclopedia - Published in 1751 ❏ Encyclopedia helped spread Enlightenment ideas to educated people all over Europe ❏ Baroque - European art of the 1600 - 1700s which was characterized by a grand, ornate design ❏ Joseph II of Austria - the most radical reformer of Austria - introduced legals reforms and freedom of press - abolished serfdom and ordered peasants to be paid in cash ❏