Question
Wilhelm Roscher is credited with coining the name for this idea, which was embodied by Catherine the Great’s highly plagiarized Nakaz legal principles. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this two-word term. This term was applied to rulers who used their absolute power in accordance with the philosophical movement of Voltaire and Cesare Beccaria.
ANSWER: enlightened despotism
[10m] This city’s Giants were a unit of very tall soldiers created by a ruler whose family developed much of this city with Enlightenment principles. A Rococo palace in this city was designed by George Wenceslaus von Knobelsdorff.
ANSWER: Potsdam
[10h] This French economist got the nickname the “Confucius of Europe” for grounding his defense of enlightened despotism in Chinese philosophy. He developed the concept of “laissez faire” from the Daoist wu wei.
ANSWER: Francois Quesnay
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Brandeis | MIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |