Reading History

My second video is up and running!  I hope you'll take seven minutes to pull up a chair and watch.  In addition, I've included a fun quiz for you to take!  I explain it in the video and it is also given below.

                                                                          FUN QUIZ      

Listed below are philosophers, intellectuals and thinkers who made major contributions to Enlightenment thinking and our modern age.  With one or two exceptions they all lived during the period covered by my recent timeline, 1300-1648.  As explained in the video, I continually confused these guys, one with the other and who influenced whom.  You cultured philosophes probably do not suffer from my welter of confusion, so, please put them in chronological order and let me know how you do!  As explained in the video, no books, computers, I-phones, maps, atlases, globes or references of any kind allowed.  This is a closed book, cold-turkey quiz that explores the accumulated knowledge in the corners (and "echoes") of your mind!

1. Machiavelli
2. Hobbes
3. Locke
4. Rousseau
5. Voltaire
6. Descartes
7. Montaigne
8. Montesquieu
9. Pascal
10. Erasmus
11. Bacon (Francis)

If that doesn't appeal to you, here are some place names that, though not necessarily important locations, sent me running to the atlas.  Likely, the well-traveled eggheads among you will cruise through this list in seconds.  Same as above, no outside sources allowed. Let me know!

1. Wallachia
2. Bohemia
3. Crecy (be specific)
4. Tlemcen
5. Otranto (be specific)
6. Transoxiana~Transoxania
7. Samarkand
8. Styria
9. Franche-Comte
10. Moravia