Enlightenment Salon – Make Seating Arrangements for 25 Enlightenment Leaders
Enlightenment Salon – Make Seating Arrangements for 25 Enlightenment Leaders
This is a graded assignment for AP World History.
The assignement requires knowledge of 25 Enlightenment leaders and their general philosophies:
- Denis Diderot, encyclopedist
- Voltaire, writer
- Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist
- Frederick the Great of Prussia, ruler
- Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler
- Catherine the Great of Russia, ruler
- Montesquieu, political thinker
- John Wesley, religious reformer
- John Locke, political thinker
- Thomas Hobbes, political thinker
- Joseph II of Austria, ruler
- Baron d’Holbach, scientist
- Edward Gibbon, historian
- Adam Smith, economist
- Edmund Burke, political philosopher
- Margaret Cavendish, writer
- Alexander Pope, poet
- Pierre Bayle, spokesman
- Baruch Spinoza, philosopher
- Marquis de Condorcet, philosopher
- David Hume, skeptic
- Jeremy Bentham, philosopher
- Napoleon Bonaparte, ruler
- Thomas Paine, writer
- Madame Geoffrin, hostess
They are to sit together around a circular table. The assignment is to place them where they would feel most comfortable (have the same ideas) and then describe what sort of conversations they would have with their neighbors.
I have attached the original assignment.
