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The Enlightenment
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10th Grade
09/01/2017

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Absolutism


Absolutism helps people belief in what the leader do
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The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles  

 

 

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Adam Smith


Adam smith was a big part in dark age
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Adam Smith was a philosopher, a Scottish political economist 

 

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Baron de Montesquieu



Baron De Montesquieu is famous for articulation of separation of powers
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Baron de Montesquieu was a french political analyst who lived during the age of enlightenment 

 

 

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Benjamin Franklin


Benjamin Franklin made the lighting rod
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A big figure in the enlightenment discovered the electricity  

 

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Cesare Beccaria



Cesare Beccaria he was one of the greatest thinkers in the enlightenment
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He was an Italian criminologist and philosopher 

 

 

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Enlightenment


Enlightenment was a big movement in the late 17th and 18th
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A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th century and heavily influenced by Locke and Newton.

 

 

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Dark ages



Rome had a Dark age when they was getting attacked
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Sometimes applies to the middle ages of the fall of Rome

 

 

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Father Hidalgo


French allowed Father Hidalgo to study the enlightenment
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Leader of the Mexican war of independence and lead 90,000 people across mexico 

 

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Ignorance



Some people in the enlightenment have ignorance
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Lack of Knowledge and information 

 

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Intolerance


People in the enlightenment had problems with intolerance
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Unwillingness to accept views,beliefs and Behavior   

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Jean-Jacques Rousseau influenced the enlightenment across France and Europe
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He was composer and writer in the 18th century.

 

 

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John Locke
John Locke widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment
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He was Scottish enlightenment thinker and as well the American Revolutionaries

 

 

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Liberty

Liberty is a big thing in The United States
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the state of being free within society from oppressive and a way of life and behavior

 

 

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft fought for women rights
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She was an English writer philosopher and advocate of women rights  

 

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philosophe


Philosphe we have that in today world
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Philosophes were public intellectual who applies reason to study of many areas of learning.

 

 

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natural rights
The citizens have the natural rights in the united states
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Rights that people supposedly have under natural law The Declaration of Independence of the states lists life,liberty and the pursuit of life 

 

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Philosophy

Philosophy helps people in the dark ages in Rome
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The study of fundamental nature of knowledge,reality, and existence

 

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Reason

Reason is how they got things spread around
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An movement that began in England in the 17th century but then spread eventually over all of the world 

 

 

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Scientific Revolution


Scientific Revolution is what we learn in school
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Scientific Revolution refers to the rapid advances in European scientific, Math and Science 

 

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Simon Bolivar


Simon Bolivar began his campaign independence in 1808
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While he was in Europe he was expose to enlightenment and overthrow the reigning Spanish

 

 

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Social Contract


Social Contract became popular because they past things around
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Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th,17th, and 18th centuries by the following of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau.

 

 

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Suffrage

Suffrage women could´t do that
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The right to vote in political elections 

 

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Superstition


Superstition is what people did in the dark ages
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excessively credulous beliefs in and revenge for supernatural beings 

 

 

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Thomas Hobbes


Thomas Hobbes is best known for his book from 1651
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He was a English philosopher who was a founder of modern political philosophy 

 

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Thomas Jefferson



Thomas Jefferson was The United states president from 1801 to 1809
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American Founder Father who was the principal author of the declaration of independence.

 

 

 

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Voltaire


Voltaire attack the catholic church
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French enlightenment writer,historian,and philosopher  

 

 

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