Enlightenment Webquest
Directions: Use the following links and videos to answer the attached questions. A worksheet to type into can be found on Google Classroom.
https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/the-enlightenment
1. When did the Age of Reason occur?
2. What were the characteristics of the Age of Reason?
3. Look at the image of the porcelain figure of John Wilkes. Explain how the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights influenced the Age of Enlightenment.
4. Compare and contrast the life experiences and the political theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.
5. Compare and contrast the political theories of Montesquieu and Rousseau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgAsw4XGvU
6. Summarize the ideas of Immanuel Kant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNhMtKb9A8
7. Explain the developments and/or philosophies of the following people:
- Francis Bacon
- Copernicus
- Galileo
- Newton
- Descartes
- Voltaire
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html
8. What were Mary Wollstonecraft's major grievances against the way women were treated in the 18th century?
http://womeninworldhistory.com/lesson16.html
9. Do any of these arguments about essential difference in male/female attributes influence ideas about women’s intellectual abilities today? Are there areas today where you think inequality in the education of girls and boys still exists? Where? Are there events, places, or classes which you feel either gender mostly is excluded from? What are the? Is this okay, or do you have ideas on how this could be changed?
https://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/specialcollections/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/diderot-1
10. What was the Encyclopedie and who was it written by?
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/208
11. Explain the quote by Beccaria in your own words.
12. Explain how the scientific developments and the philosophies of the Age of the Enlightenment/Reason impact the modern world.