How Were European Rulers Guided By Enlightenment Thought

Question: How were European rulers guided by Enlightenment thought?

Answer: European rulers were guided by Enlightenment thought by starting to follow natural laws. Most rulers abolished torture and added laws to follow Enlightenment thoughts.

Question: How did changing alliances in Europe lead to the Seven Years' War?

Answer: France, Austria, and Russia allied against Britain and Prussia. Britain and France had issues which caused them to want to fight and Austria and Prussia wanted to fight over Silesia. Russia joined Austria because they saw Prussia as a major threat to their goals.

Question: How was the Seven Years' War carried out on a global scale?

Answer: The war was fought in North America, India, and Europe.

Question: Enlightened Absolutism-

Answer: a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers

Question: Successors-

Answer: one that follows, especially one who takes over a throne, title, estate, or office

Question: What rights did did philosophes believe in?

Answer: equality before the law, freedom of speech, press, religion, and right to own property, etc.

Question: How did Fredrick II apply Enlightenment ideas to his government?

Answer: -Abolished the use of torture-Granted limited freedom of speech and press-Greater religious toleration

Question: How did Joseph II apply Enlightenment ideas to his government?

Answer: -Abolished serfdom-Eliminated the death penalty-Equality before the law-Religious toleration

Question: How did Catherine the Great apply Enlightenment ideas to her government?

Answer: -Supported the law code that emphasized all are equal before the law

Question: Who died in 1740 that was important to Austria?

Answer: Charles VI

Question: Who took over after Charles VI died without a male heir?

Answer: Maria Theresa, his daughter

Question: King Fredrick II refused to recognize Maria Theresa as ruler and invaded what Austrian territory?

Answer: Silesia

Question: What two countries joined the War of Austrian Succession on two different sides?

Answer: France and Great Britain

Question: Where was the War of Austrian Succession fought?

Answer: Europe, India, and North America

Question: What treaty ended the War of Austrian Succession and returned all territories back to the original countries?

Answer: Treaty Aix-la-Chapelle

Question: What were the two sides of The Seven Years War?

Answer: Prussia and Britain vs Austria, France, and Russia

Question: What did Prussia and Austria fight over?

Answer: Silesia

Question: What did Britain and France fight over?

Answer: Colonial Territories

Question: At the end of The Seven Years War, all territories were returned except...

Answer: Silesia

Question: What did Britain gain in the French and Indian War(Part of the Seven Years War)?

Answer: Canada, Florida, and all French-held lands east of the Mississippi River