Monday, December 26, 2016

Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie?




  • Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie?
  • Why did the Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II react negatively to Mozart’s Don Giovanni?
  • What work of art does the young man’s position in Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing reflect?
  • Why did the philosophes alienate themselves from the Church?
  • Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau’s fêtes galantes become so popular?
  • Why did the French Tribunal order execution of Maximilien Robespierre, one of the leaders of the revolution and new government?
  • Why did the French peasant and working-class women march on Versailles in 1789?
  • Why did the British feel entitled to tax the colonists following the Seven Years’ War
  • Which of the following was taxed by the Stamp Act that Britain imposed on the American colonies
  • Why do scholars today doubt parts of Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography of his years as a slave?

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