After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Identify the most important elements of Enlightenment thought;
- Describe how intellectual, social, and political conditions affected the
development of the Enlightenment;
- Assess how Enlightenment ideas spread through popular culture and art;
- Analyze the relationship between Enlightenment philosophy and royal government;
- Explain the role of warfare in eighteenthcentury state- and empirebuilding;
- Discuss the impact of agricultural change on populations and social structures.
