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Objectives

1. Identify the major ideas and describe the themes developed in the Enlightenment

2. Analyze why middle-class people were interested in the Enlightenment

3. Appraise how and to what extent the lives of the peasants and workers had changed

4. Identify the factors that explained the shift in the European balance of power and predict the possible impact

 Topic A: The Enlightenment at Its Height (708)

1. Men and Women of the Republic of Letters  709-712
2. Conflicts with Church and State  712-713
3. The Individual and Society  713-717
4. Spreading the Enlightenment  717-720
5. The Limits of Reason: Roots of Romanticism and Religious Revival  720-721

 Topic B: Society and Culture in an Age of Enlightenment (722)

1. The Nobility’s Reassertion of Privilege  722-723
2. The Middle Class and the Making of a New Elite 723-726
3. Life on the Margins  726-728
4. The Roots of Industrialization  728-729

 Topic C: State Power in an Era of Reform (729)

1. War and Diplomacy    730-733
2. State-Sponsored Reform  733-735
3. Limits of Reform  735-736

 Topic D: Rebellions against State Power (736)

1. Food Riots and Peasant Uprisings  736-738
2. Public Opinion and Political Opposition  738-739
3. Revolution in North America  739-742