The goals of the Enlightenment Revolution were to promote reason, individualism, and secularism. It sought to challenge the authority of traditional institutions such as the Church and monarchy and promote ideas of freedom, equality, and progress.
Napoleonic Code.
Catherine II the Great used the philosophies that were coming out during the Age of Enlightenment. She was regarded as one of the "enlightened despots," along with Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria. Although she was one of the first monarchs to realize they ruled with some obligation to take care of the country and its people, she still found time to carve Poland up and annex most of it to her empire.
The role politics played in Russia's population crisis was by trying to help increase the population, and reduce the decreasing percent by taxation reform, social reform, pension reform, and budget reform.
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an effort to defend Calvinism against Enlightenment ideas
Physiocrats which were basically trying to combat mercantilism.
Peter the Great's reforms in Russia helped to strengthen the army.
the cluny reform's purpose was to reform the error in monasticism. Monasticism had become corrupt and secular--monks thought they were cultural saviors, and thought they were higher, morally than others. The Cluny Reform was to fix those erros and to reform the thoughts behind monastic living and tradition.
She brought educational reform to Russia , promoted women's rights and religious tolerance.
They claimed that they wanted to carry out enlightenment ideals through political and social reform
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