1. Absolutism

The president used Absolutism and dropped a bomb on another country.

The principle or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.

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1. Adam Smith

I wish I was Adam Smith in 1723–90.

Adam Smith is also known for his theory meaning that dangerous  jobs tend to pay higher wages to attract workers to these positions, But he is most famous for his 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. "

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1. Baron de Montesquieu

Baron de Montesquieu studied political liberty as a natural right, which divided into 3 branches.

Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.

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1. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin is on The United States one hundred-dollar bill.

As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions.

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1. Cesare Beccaria
    
    

Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. 

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1. Dark Ages

People call it the Dark Ages because historians don't know as much about this time. In some ways, this period of time has been lost to history.

It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.

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Enlightenment

My brother looked at me for Enlightenment from his soccer coach. 

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy."

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8. Father Hidalgo

Father Hidalgo is remembered for being a key factor and known for being the father of Mexican independence.

Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is known as the father of Mexican independence because he led the first revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico. Hidalgo, a priest from the village of Dolores near Guanajuato, ordered the arrest of the native Spaniards in Dolores on September 16, 1810.

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9. Ignorance (C)

You can never say that I am ignorant about basketball.

lack of knowledge of information

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10. Intolerance (C)

My mom has an intolerance to listen to loud music late at night.

lack of tolerance; unwillingness or refusal to tolerate or respect opinions or beliefs contrary to one's own.

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11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau made an impact across Europe in many different areas like music and writing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought.

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12. John Locke

John Locke is know as the "Father of Liberalism" and has the greatest impact on the Enlightenment period.

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"

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13. Liberty (C)

When the school bell rings the students feel a since of liberty to do what they want.

the state of being free , the power to do as one pleases

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14. Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft believed and wrote about equal rights for women.

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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15. philosophe

Jacques Rousseau would be considered a philosophe because he had great influence during the Enlightenment period.

any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century

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16. natural rights

Every human should be entitled to natural rights regardless of race or gender.

Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal and inalienable (they cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws).

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17. Philosophy

Socrates and Aristotle are great Philosophers of their time.

the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.

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18. Reason (C)

There are a lot of reasons why we study Philosophy.

a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event

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19.Scientific revolution

The scientific revolution influenced many people during the enlightenment period.

The scientific revolution is a concept used by historians to describe the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

The scientific revolution took place in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 18th century, influencing the intellectual social movement known as the Enlightenment.

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20. Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment period.

was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama as sovereign states, independent of Spanish rule.

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21. Social Contract

The social contract helped early influencers explain how the government began.

an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.

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22. Suffrage

Women's suffrage was not the same as men, they had to fight for it.

the right to vote in political elections

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23. Superstition

My teammate is superstitious and wears the same socks every game.

a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation

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24. Thomas Hobbes

The founder of modern political philosophy is Thomas Hobbes.

was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, which established the social contract theory that has served as the foundation for most later Western political philosophy. Born in 1588.

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25. Thomas Jefferson

In our last chapter my class learned that Thomas Jefferson was the primarily writer of the DOI.

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he was elected the second Vice President of the United States.

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26. Voltaire

Voltaire was public activist and French writer during the 18th century.

Real name is François-Marie Arouet, born in 1694. Was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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