How did the Enlightenment both resemble and differ from the Scientific Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
Discuss the former’s emphasis on reason but also its subject matter: humans and their societies, rather than the natural world. The ideas of Locke, Montesquieu, and Voltaire are indispensable to understanding this topic.
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Economically, the great plague and the crises of the fourteenth century
A) devastated peasants but not nobles. B) brought an economic boom to landlords. C) caused only minor changes in agricultural practices. D) raised wages because of a scarcity of labor. E) had little impact.
How were black and white voluntary associations similar during the antebellum period?
A) Black and white associations were very different in tactics and ideas. B) Both black and white associations drew on a reform spirit, focusing on many of the same issues and concerns. C) Both black and white associations focused solely on abolishing slavery. D) Both black and white associations focused solely on the temperance movement.
All of the following were factors that helped end the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century EXCEPT
a. the Industrial Revolution b. few Africans remaining to be enslaved c. Christian churches d. Enlightenment ideas of equality e. slave revolts
According to Egyptian belief, the Nile's rise and fall was dictated by
A) tides. B) Ra. C) the pharaoh. D) priests.