Day 25 Spread of EnlightenmentWarm Up: Symphony No. 5 Beethoven

Objective: understand a problem solving approach to governments

Standard: 10:2.1

Homework: 202-205

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

Art and Literature• Baroque to

neoclassical (ornate to logic)

• Hayden, Mozart and Beethoven

• Literature: Fictional stories with depth

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

Russian Expansion• Russia gets black

sea access from Ottomans

• Poland disappears under Russia, Prussia and Austria

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?

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)

Free Write Paragraph

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