Enlightenment Ideas Spread

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Enlightenment Ideas Spread by Mind Map: Enlightenment Ideas Spread

1. New Ideas Challenges Society

1.1. Diderot

1.1.1. Encyclopedia

1.2. Writers face censorship

1.2.1. Gov and Church felt to defend old order

1.2.2. war of censorship

1.2.3. banned and burned books

1.2.4. In order to avoid it many writers disguised ideas in works of fiction

1.2.5. Candide

1.2.5.1. 1759

1.2.5.2. Voltaire

1.2.5.3. expose corruption and hypocrisy of European society

2. Art and Literature reflect New ideas

2.1. 1600-1700

2.2. From Grandeur to Charm

2.2.1. Louis XIV

2.2.2. baroque

2.2.2.1. greek and roman traditions

2.2.3. rococo

2.2.3.1. represent change in society

2.3. Enlightenment Inspires Composers

2.3.1. new forms of music began to form

2.3.2. Johann Sebastian

2.3.3. Mozart

2.3.4. Franz Haydn

2.3.5. George Handel

2.4. Novel takes shape

2.4.1. 1700

2.4.2. new form of literature and larger audiences

2.4.3. middle class readers

2.4.4. Daniel Defoe

2.4.4.1. Robinson Crusoe

2.4.5. Samuel Richardson

2.4.5.1. Pamela

3. Enlightened despots embrace new ideas

3.1. absolute rulers who use power to bring change

3.2. Frederick the Great

3.2.1. 1740-1786

3.2.2. Prussia

3.3. Catherine the Great

3.3.1. 1762

3.3.2. Russia

3.4. Joseph II

3.4.1. Maria Theresa

4. Lives of Majority Change Slowly

4.1. Most europeans were untouched by the new culture

4.2. serfdom still remained

4.3. radical ideas about equality went to peasant villages

4.3.1. 1700s

4.4. 1800

4.4.1. war and economical conditions would transform peasant Europe