ID'S:

LOUIS XIV, LOUIS XV, FREDERICK WILLIAM I, FREDERICK THE GREAT, MARIA THERESA, JOSEPH II, PETER THE GREAT, CATHERINE THE GREAT

(PHILOSOPHES), DIDEROT, CONDORCET, ROUSSEAU, (CONFESSIONS), THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, CIVIL LIBERTY, DEISM, LEIBNITZ, OPTIMISM, VOLTAIRE, CANDIDE,  KANT

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN, (LOUIS XVI), THE CONVENTION, ROBESPIERRE, COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY, REIGN OF TERROR, THE DIRECTORY, NAPOLEON

CONGRESS OF VIENNA, ALEXANDER I, (HOLY ALLIANCE), LIBERALISM, LAISSEZ-FAIRE, NATIONALISM, CRIMEAN WAR,  (REVOLUTION OF 1830), LOUIS PHILIPPE, (REVOLUTION OF 1848), LOUIS NAPOLEON, CAVOUR, GARIBALDI, BISMARCK, FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, VICTORIA

HINDUISM, CASTE SYSTEM, KALI, SATI, EAST INDIA COMPANY, WHITE MAN'S BURDEN, OCEAN DEVILS, OPIUM WAR, TAIPING REBELLION, MAO TSE-TUNG

ESSAYS:

1. While in some ways the 18th century was an age of enlightenment, it was not a very enlightened age.  The mixture of enlightenment and folly is particularly evident when one looks at the European monarchs of this century.  Comment.

2. The great thinkers of the 18th century turned to reason for answers to mankind's problems.  They believed that reason would end poverty and injustice.  They believed that reason would help them create the ideal social and political system.  They even believed that reason would provide the ultimate answers in religion.  One might even say that they carried their faith in reason to an irrational extreme.  Comment.

3. During each stage of the French Revolution, the French tried to make wonderful improvements in their form of government, but, in many cases, these improvements turned out not to be so wonderful after all.  Comment.

4. The 19th century in some ways merits the name "The Age of Progress."  Interestingly enough, this progress came through an a mixture of conservative and liberal ideas.  Comment.

5.  Europeans and European civilization have dominated the modern world—sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.  Comment.

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