The Enlightenment - Culture/ monarchs

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Philosophes

________ tried to persuade monarchs to accept Enlightenment ideas.

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Handel

________: Popular composer in England, wrote pieces for King George I, joyous music.

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Mozart

________: Austrian music prodigy, his operas show how the world had "hypocrisy and lies ..

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Rococo style

________ is light and elegant.

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Bach

Organist, great composer, German Lutheran

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Enlightened despots

"Absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change

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Frederick the Great

King of Prussia 1740 to 1786

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Catherine the Great

empress of Russia

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Joseph II

Of Austria - very interested in the enlightenment

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Voltaire and Diderot

Catherine the Great talked to and got ideas from _________.

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