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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?
changes
What are reforms?
to give permission to be governed
What is consent?
freedom
What is liberty?
open minded and educated
What is enlightened?
people who studied politics, justice, liberty, property
What is the political philosophers?
publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books
What is a Encyclopedia?
disagreed with
What is opposed?
unfair treatment of a group of people
What is persecution?
interprets the laws; court system
What is Judicial Branch?
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 the Scientific Revolution?
kings and queens
What are monarchs?
form of government where people choose leaders by voting
What is
Democracy?
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way
What is revolutionary?
makes the laws; Senate, Congress
What is Legislative Branch?
educated people
What is Scholars?
the idea that a king ruled by the authority of God
What is divine right of kings?
kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them
What is absolute monarchs?
enforces the laws; police, military. President
What is Executive
Branch?
said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were
What is John Locke?
a gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What are salons?
rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
What is natural rights?
false beliefs
What is superstition?
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families
What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times
What is Voltaire?