Educated people
What is Scholars?
Form of government where people choose leaders by voting
What is Democracy?
open minded and educated
What is enlightened?
a time in the 1500’s and 1600’s where scientists tried to explain the workings of the universe by using logic, reason and science
What is Scientific Revolution?
makes the laws; Senate, Congress
What is Legislative Branch?
Changes
What is Reforms?
disagreed with
What is opposed?
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
What is Revolutionary?
the idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
What is divine right of kings?
enforces the laws; police, military. President
What is Executive Branch?
Publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books.
What is Encyclopedia?
false beliefs
What is superstition?
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times
What is Voltaire?
rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
What is natural rights?
.said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences
Who is John Locke?
Kings and Queens
What is Monarchs?
unfair treatment of a group of people
What is persecution?
a time beginning in the 1600’s and lasting until the 1700’s in which philosophers used reason to seek truths about human nature; also known as the Age of Reason
What is The Enlightenment ?
. kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them
What is absolute monarchs?
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
To give permission to be governed
What is Consent?
freedom
What is Liberty?
people who studied politics, justice, liberty, property
What is political philosophers?
interprets the laws; court system
What is Judicial Branch?
a gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What is salons?