Author Question: What was Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious ... (Read 21 times)

natalie2426 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Why was the seventeenth-century Chesapeake politically unstable?

a. The governments of Virginia and Maryland were dominated by immigrants who had no strong ties to eachother or to their respective colonies.
b. Few settlers cared about becoming politically involved.
c. Parliament continually interfered in the governing of the Chesapeake colonies.
d. Most settlers questioned the legitimacy of the colonial governments of Virginia and Maryland.

Question 2

What was Diderot's most famous contribution to the Enlightenment's battle against religious fanaticism, intolerance, and prudery?

a. The great play Is Rome Burning?
b. A 28-volume Encyclopedia compiling articles by many influential philosophes
c. An autobiography published in French
d. A biography of Newton, the greatest European
e. An unconditional support for enlightened despotism