Major Ideas
Theory that states the universe revolves around the sun.
Heliocentric
Meeting places where the ideas of the enlightenment were spread.
Salons
A government controlled by the people.
A Democracy
Held that for humans, life was "nasty, brutish, and short," and that man was essentially "bad" by nature.
Thomas Hobbes
Men and women Enlightenment thinkers are also referred to as.
Philosophers
Discovery of new lands provided a refuge for people upset with the _____ of Europe?
Monarchies
Revolutions that were inspired by Enlightenment ideas.
American Revolution and French Revolution
The division of power among different branches of government.
Separation of powers
These rights were thought of by John Locke during the Enlightenment and you get them just by existing as a human being.
Natural Rights
The time period of the Age of Enlightenment
Mid-seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries
Overthrowing of a political system by the common folk
Revolution
Invention that led to cheaper publishing costs, enabling the spread of ideas throughout Europe.
Printing Press
Belief that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
Popular sovereignty
'Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'. Which Enlightenment thinker had the greatest impact on this phrase from the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson?
John Locke
What is another name for the Age of Enlightenment
Age of Reason
This Reformation posed as a political and religious challenge to the Catholic Church.
The Protestant Reformation
A book written by Thomas Hobbes, published in 1651. Regarded as one of the most influential examples of social contract theory.
Leviathan
Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.
Divine Right
Believed that power should not be concentrated in one place, like a King, but should be separated into branches of government.
Montesquieu
A document inspired by Enlightenment thinkers that changed the United States
Declaration of Independence or Bill of Rights
An agreement between citizens and their government over who has the power.
Social Contract
New art style of the Enlightenment that focused on simple designs borrowed from the Greeks and Romans
Neoclassical
Montesquieu's doctrine of separation of powers in government is where the framers of the American system got the idea to separate its government into these three branches
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
The Enlightenment Thinker who wrote works of satire mocking the nobility and clergy, and believed in freedom of speech and religious tolerance.
Voltaire
The proliferation of books, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets led to a dramatic growth in this during the 18th century
Literacy