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Question 1

Louis XIV's government included all the following EXCEPT
 
  a. regular consultations with the parlements.
  b. Versailles as a palace of distractions for the aristocracy.
  c. intendants as royal agents administrating the districts of France.
  d. a very competent finance minister, Colbert.
  e. a huge military machine with an army of 300,000.

Question 2

What most closely describes the contributions of Isaac Newton and John Locke to the Enlightenment?
 
  a. They created two antagonistic religious systems of thought.
  b. They provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society.
  c. They claimed that mathematics and science would bring about the cure for the evils of society but only very slowly.
  d. They said the philosophes were the prophets of the future and that their rejection of the scientific revolution was justified.
  e. They had little influence on the later Enlightenment as they were perceived to be figures of the old seventeenth century.


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Reply #1 on: Sep 12, 2019

Answer 1

a

Answer 2

b


piesebel

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