History of Europe Questions

Who authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the basis of the U.S Bill of Rights?

Who advocated Deism in his "Epistle to Urania"?

Where did "Nature and Nature's Law lay hid" before Newton?

Whose Common Sense and American Crisis challenge the authority of England?

What 2 "spirits" does the French Enlightenment share with the Italian Renaissance?

What is the French royal prison and fortress?

What is the title of Newton's famous book on physics? What year was it published?

Who attacks the fanaticism of the Jesuits in his "Treatise on Tolerance"?

Who is known as the "Innkeeper of Europe"?

When God said "Let Newton be," what did all become?

Whose famed summer palace of Sanssouci is located in Potsdam near Berlin?

Who is colonial America's "Renaissance Man," a man of wit, wisdom, and genius?

Which Hellenistic philosopher advocated the avoidance of pain by pursuing pleasure in moderation?

If their own is the Age of Reason what d other philosophes consider the Middle Ages?

Whose Age of Louis XIV glorifies the time period as one of brilliance?

Which philosophe attacks Leibniz' naive optimism about the "best of all possible worlds"?

Which philosophe advocates the admission of women to the rights of citizenship?

What is the aristocratic, social, and political system of Valois and Bourbon France called?

Who write a famous couplet in honor of Sir Isaac Newton?

Who is imprisoned in the Bastille twice for his outspoken irreverence toward the nobility?