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What types of reforms did enlightened despots make?
Despots are not enlightened or they wouldn't be despots. A despot is someone who wants to enslave people.
What did the enlightened despots try to do?
Enlightened Despots used their power to bring about social and political changes
How are enlightened despots different from absolute monarchs?
Enlightened Despots were a subset of absolute monarchs that made legal, social, and educational reforms in accordance with Enlightenment principles. All Enlightened Despots were absolute monarchs, but there were a number of European absolute monarchs that were not Enlightened Despots.
Who were the enlightened despots?
The major enlightened despots were Frederick the Great of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia and Joseph II of Austria.
What were the goals of englighgened despots?
The goals of enlightened despots was to bring political and social change.
What sort of reforms did the enlightened despots of Spain make and for what purpose?
Spain did not have any enlightened despots. By the mid-1600s, Spain was an empire in decadence and lacked the kind of inspirational leaders found in Prussia, Russia, Austria, and France, some of whom could be called Enlightened Despots.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were enlightened despots?
no they were not
What group of leaders attempted to reform their political legal and economic systems?
Enlightened despots attempted to bring about reforms to their social and government systems during their rules.
What was the major difference between a despot and an Enlightened despot?
Enlightened despots liked hanging out with the French philosophes.
How did enlightenment despots contribute to the enlightenment?
The Enlightened Despots used their power to bring about some political changes as well as social.
How do rule by divine right and rule by an enlightened despot differ?
Enlightened despots applied Enlightenment ideas to the government
Was Catherine the great an enlightenment ruler?
Catherine the Great of Russia was considered among the so-called "enlightened despots" or enlightened monarchs." During the Age of Enlightenment several monarchs began to realize philosophically that their function was to rule for the the benefit of their subjects as much as for the benefit of themselves. In other words it wasn't just "me, me, me." Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria are the three most notable "enlightened despots."
