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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