religion or other things‚ have come from the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a period of history that took place in the 18th century in Europe. It was also sometimes known as the age of reason because of it was a time when people started to use their own reason to discover the world. There was a spread in scientific‚ rational and liberal ideas. The Enlightenment had many philosophes. Philosophes were the people who lead the learning of the Enlightenment‚ they started studies in science‚ economics
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XVI‚ who was not the brightest star in the sky. He threw many parties without even knowing that he would soon be in big trouble. Everyone was starting to get sick of being under his rules. And that’s how the French revolution had begun. This story will be told as a commoner’s view of this whole revolution. King Louis XVI was a very fun-loving person. He threw parties here and there until one day he realized that there was a financial crisis in his own country‚ which meant that he didn’t have any money
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The Haitian Revolution lasted from 1791 to 1804. Before the revolution‚ blacks and mulattoes wanted equality‚ and also independence from France. Slaves worked from before dawn till after dark. They were underfed‚ undernourished‚ and overworked by their owners. Owners used violence and terror to force slaves to work. They would burn them in ovens‚ pour boiling cane sugar on them‚ and put salt‚ pepper‚ or lemon on whip wounds. Slaves resisted slavery through infanticide‚ suicide‚ and plotting to kill
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Practice: Document Based Questions The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment both produced writers and thinkers who argued for the implementation of a republican government. Writers such as Locke‚ Montesquieu‚ Edwards and Whitefield‚ all had a role in promoting republican values‚ which in turn influenced the establishment of a republican government. John Locke‚ an English philosopher was a major part of the growth of the rebublican view during the Enlightenment era.1 Locke was a brilliant teacher
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Industrial Revolution is responsible for modern society. A lot of scientific breakthroughs and modern developments would not have been possible without the Industrial Revolution. The train was built‚ the light bulb invented. Ideas were now spreading across the world. Marxism. Socialism. Capitalism. The Industrial Revolution was a new era. However‚ the question is still raised: did the Industrial Revolution improve life in Great Britain? The Industrial Revolution improved life in Great Britain due
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The enlightenment philosophers during the late 17th and 18th century in Europe‚ helped shape the capitalistic and democratic world we live in today. Among those enlightened thinkers where John locke‚ Voltaire‚ Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft. John Locke laid much of the ground work for the enlightenment and made central contributions to the development of liberalism. Locke suggested that government should respect freedom of religion except when the dissenting belief was a threat to natural rights
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The American Revolution was mainly provoked because of the unwanted high taxes that colonies had to pay so British can pay their war debt. The French Indian war was the biggest cause of the high taxes which lead to certain acts like stamp act and sugar act which was very harsh for the colonies as they had to give high taxes on daily use items and all this taxes was without permission of the colonies. Colonist were also angry as they had no representation in parliament so they were not able to provide
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to have more access to education; the literacy rates went up and new discoveries and ideas arose guiding mankind to a period of time that is known for the great advances‚ ideas and discoveries that became the fundamental base for today’s political and scientific ideologies. These new political and scientific philosophies of the enlightenment era marked a shift in the European history as during this period‚ the “human ability to reason was glorified.” John Locke was an English man who believed
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Second Great Awakening In the late 1820s and 1830s a religious revival called the Second Great Awakening had a strong impact on the American religion and reform. It grew partly out of evangelical opposition to the deism associated with the French Revolution and gathered strength in 1826‚ when Charles Grandsoin Finney preacher conducted a revival. Many people saw religion as a social gathering since people didn’t get out much in the 1800s it made going to church and being holy a more enjoyable
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Isaac Newton was a big name around the period of time of the Enlightenment. He had many inventions that contributed to the Enlightenment such as the Naturalis Principia Mathematica Philosophiae and his ideas about gravity and the invention of the telescope. Isaac Newton was born on January 4‚ 1643 and his first contribution to the enlightenment was making the telescope. In 1668 he created the telescope for optics and this invention proved the idea of color and light. He proved that light was
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