Please read Merriman, 312-325 for class on Tuesday.
As you begin reading Chapter 9, please take a moment to reflect on how the Enlightenment fits into the story of European history that we are constructing. In the coming weeks we will be building up to the French Revolution. Toward that end, please write 3-4 sentence identifications for the four enlightenment thinkers highlighted in this section: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot and Rousseau. For the significance component of the id., try to show how their works reflected and/or influenced political realities of the 18th century. Feel free to write about how they influenced one another (ie. Rousseau and Diderot's encyclopedia). I would like you to type these up and bring them to class, but I will not collect them this Tuesday, rather I'll collect them with a couple of other assignments when we finish the chapter the following Tuesday.
