[Lecture] Enlightenment, Coffee, & Voltaire

Three things that go well together: Enlightenment, Coffee, & Voltaire!

The Enlightenment: Logic & Scientific Discovery
The Atlantic Economy Fuels the Enlightenment
Coffee Houses, Newspapers, Tobacco
Louis XIV & Huguenots; Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Triangle of the Enlightenment: PAL
Atheism & Deism
Slavery
Voltaire

Absolutism & Louis XIV

Absolutism & Louis XIV

Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
Time Orientation: Atlantic Trade & Great Wealth
Colonization & Slave Trade
New Crops: High Volume = Great Wealth
Taxes
Wealth goes to the center of the government
Feudalist Economy vs. Absolutist Economy
Enlightened Despots
Producing Great Works
Hobbes vs. Locke
Louis XIV
Versailles

The French Revolution Documentary Assignment

Documentary Review

 Here is an exercise in critique and analysis of a secondary source. You will be comparing the information in this documentary (from the golden era of the History channel) to other sources in order to evaluate the French Revolution through intertextual analysis, in this case, inter-multimedia analysis.

Your task is to first watch the History Channel’s
documentary on the French Revolution.  Then
you are to write a short 2 page review of the documentary.

In particular, your review should answer the following
questions:

1)  What is the
purpose of this documentary?  Is it
successful in its primary goal?

2)  What does the
documentary do well?

3)  What does the
documentary do poorly?  (For example, are
there aspects of the French Revolution that aren’t covered or
are covered too lightly?)

[Lecture] Moving Toward the Modern State: The 30 Years War

[Lecture] Moving Toward the Modern State: The 30 Years War

Highlights of the 30 Years War
Defenestration of Prague
B - Bohemian
D - Danish
S- Swedish [Gustavus Adolphus & Military History]
F- French
Religious War or Secular War?
Peace of Westphalia 1648
Economic Shift
International Delegation
Clarification of the Spanish-Netherlands
Introduction to Absolutism & Constitutionalism
Louis XIV
Pirates & Freemasons
Dutch & English
Austria & Russia

Who are the Gods you Serve? New Meme!

Thought I'd share this; fresh from the meme generator!

[Ancient Light Audio Show: "Who are the Gods you Serve?" https://youtu.be/xCBTHyJkQtg]

A show about Plato's Forms and the Personification of human traits into a deity. Pictured above, the Statue of Liberty, given to the United States from France. I am in the process of writing an Ancient Light episode on "Lady Liberty" and her place in both ancient and modern history.