How did the Church react to the negative attacks of the Enlightenment? What were some of the techniques used to help regain their followers and revive the role of the Church?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Revival of religion
1. churches knew how to defeat unbelievers
2. appeals, over the intellectuals' heads, to ordinary people
3. the eighteenth century was a time of tremendous religious revival in the
West
4. Christianity reached a new public
a. religion—for most people—is more satisfying than science
5. preaching was the information technology of all these movements
a. music inspired the movement as well
6. European monarchs collaborated with religious revival as a means to
distract people from politics and strengthen churches for social control
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a) porcelain made in British kilns and priced for middle-class customers b) Chinese porcelain, imported at cheaper prices Consider This: Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, officially sanctioned the Wedgwood offering known as “Queen’s Ware.” See 7.3.1: Products for Everyone. c) basic necessities such as buckles, spoons, and toast-racks Consider This: Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, officially sanctioned the Wedgwood offering known as “Queen’s Ware.” See 7.3.1: Products for Everyone. d) the first layaway plan to help people of modest means purchase things like sets of dinnerware Consider This: Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, officially sanctioned the Wedgwood offering known as “Queen’s Ware.” See 7.3.1: Products for Everyone.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was
A. the formal title of the Osiris myth. B. an epic poem from Mesopotamia dealing with the search for immortality. C. a creation myth developed by early Phoenician thinkers. D. the first Egyptian literary masterpiece. E. a code of laws established by the Babylonian ruler, Gilgamesh.
The inventor of proscription was
a. Marius b. Sulla c. Pompey d. Crassus e. Julius Caesar
Why were the Portuguese unable to coerce West and Central African states in the 1400s into accepting a subjugated economic and political relationship?
What political, military, and economic advantages did these Western and Central African states possess that enabled them to resist the efforts at political conquest and economic subjugation by the Portuguese? What alternative approach to a military-based colonial conquest did the Portuguese implement when it became clear that political conquest would be untenable?