What was the common Enlightenment view of the church? Why did most Enlightenment thinkers hold this view?
What will be an ideal response?
A. View of the Church
1. great obstacle to progress was the Church
2. catalogued clerical crimes—inquisitions, persecutions, abuses of power
3. ridiculed doctrine
4. blaming Christianity and Islam alike for inhibiting sex and discouraging
procreation
5. measure progress of the Enlightenment across Europe in anticlerical acts
6. success of science encouraged mistrust of religion
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A. The government should be for the common good. B. The government should be open to both men and women. C. The government should hold elections every four years. D. The government should be run by people who are not paid.
All of the following contributed to a more advantageous economic atmosphere in Europe after 1000 EXCEPT:
a. An increasing population, based on improvements in the European diet. b. An increasing demand for consumer goods. c. A greater supply of trade items that were in high demand across Asia. d. More efficient watermills.
The system that came to be known as the "cottage industry" involved all except
a. the purchase, by an entrepreneur, of the raw materials needed for textile production. b. country laborers producing yarn and cloth. c. the selling of finished products by an entrepreneur. d. peasants grew cotton on their farms and sold the raw material to entrepreneurs. e. it was also known as the "putting-out" system.
Which of these was a Persian emperor who established the first Persian writing system?
A) Cambyses B) Xerxes C) Cyrus the Great D) Darius I