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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 was the Enlightment?
A gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
Who are Salons?
Rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property.
What are Natural Rights?
An unfair treatment of a group of people.
What is Persecution?
Interprets the laws; court system.
What is the Judicial Branch?
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 was the Scientific Revolution?
Publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books.
What is an Encyclopedia?
Kings or Queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them.
Who are Absoulute Monarchs?
Freedom
What is Liberty
Makes the laws; Senate, Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
People who studied politics, justice, liberty, property.
Who are Political Philosophers?
Kings and Queens.
Who are Monarchs?
Form of government where people choose leaders by voting.
What is a Democracy?
Open minded and educated.
What is the meaning of Enlightend?
Enforces the laws; police, military. President.
What is the Executive Branch?
Educated People
Who are Scholars?
The idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
What is the Divine Right Of Kings?
Disagreed with.
What is the meaning of opposed?
The change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
What is Revolutionary?
Said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences.
Who is John Locke?
Changes
What are Reforms?
To give permission to be governed.
What does it mean to consent?
False beliefs.
What is a Superstition?
Spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times.
Who is Voltaire?
Argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?