Answer the focus questions from each section of the chapter.
What revolutionary discoveries were made in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and why did they occur in Europe?
What intellectual and social changes occurred as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
How did the Enlightenment emerge, and what were major currents of Enlightenment thought?
How did Enlightenment thinkers address issues of racial and social difference, and how did new institutions and social practices diffuse Enlightenment thought?
What impact did new ways of thinking have on political developments and monarchical absolutism?