What contributed to the growth of civil society in eighteenth-century Europe?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Characteristics of civil society include the rise of public opinion and new social spaces.
b. Relatively high literacy rates among the bourgeoisie created a reading public that was informed of the latest political and social ideas associated with the Enlightenment.
c. This reading public that was dominated by the bourgeoisie began to voice their views, giving rise to public opinion and political demands for change.
d. A growing "public sphere" of activity politicized bourgeois society.
e. Coffeehouses, masonic lodges, and literary salons represented the new social spaces for people to gather to discuss and debate Enlightenment ideas.
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What will be an ideal response?
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What will be an ideal response?
The curiate assembly typically voted by __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).