Monday, February 10, 2025

Socials 9: Answers to Friday 5: Feb. 7th

 1.  Describe the enlightenment as a time period.

-The enlightenment was a time of new ideas and thinking in science, philosophy and politics.  It influenced new inventions and ways of thinking about government.

2. One example of a philosopher from the period of the enlightenment.

Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau

3.  Define democracy:

Government for the people by the people.  (Elected government/voted in by the people)

4. Differentiate between the two types of monarchs.

Absolute Monarch = a monarch with absolute authority and power that they felt were vested in them by God

Constitutional Monarch = a monarch who followed the rules of the land kept in the constitution made by the people in the kingdom/land.

5.  What were some of the causes of the French Revolution?

-new ideas from the enlightenment, bad leadership, huge debt of the country, American Revolution, rising cost of bread, poverty, social inequality

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