The Age of Reason
Questions for Critical Thinking – each question is worth 10 pointsComplete and submit the following questions. They will include a series of content, integration, and synthesis related to the reading assignments. Questions will cover the content of the material and will require the Learner to think critically and contextually about the subject matter. Your responses must be complete, using terminology and concepts presented in the primary textbook as well as supplementary resources. Write in complete sentences and use good grammar, double-spacing, 12 point font, with one inch margins. Be sure to cite your resources and provide the references using APA format. Remember to reference all work cited or quoted by the text authors. You should be doing this often in your responses.1. What were the leading goals, ideals, figures, and contributions of the Enlightenment to the Western tradition?2. What was enlightened despotism? Where and why did it develop in the eighteenth century? Discuss the successes and failures of this political system, focusing on one of the enlightened despots discussed in the textbook.3. What influences helped to bring about the neoclassical style? What were its characteristics?4. Discuss the rise of the novel in eighteenth-century England. What conditions encouraged its development, who were the first novelists, and what were their themes?5. In what way did the Enlightenment lay the foundations of the modern world?6. What were the causes of the French Revolution? What changed in the first year of revolution (1789)?7. Discuss Napoleon's successes and failures as a military leader and as a diplomat.8. How did conservative Europeans respond to the ideals and goals of the French Revolution in the years between 1815 and 1830?9. Compare the characteristics of Faust in Goethe's Faust and of Victor Frankenstein in Shelley's Frankenstein. In what ways are they both romantic characters?10. Which event of the 1760–1830 period has had the most important effect on your life? Book Matthews, Platt, and Noble (2014). Experience Humanities – The Renaissance to the Present. (8th Edition). McGraw Hill Companies, Inc.. vol 2 9780077494711