Eighteenth Century Europe

Economic

Social

John Locke

The idea that humans are natrually good and the environment they grow up in forms their opinions and makes who they are.

Thomas Hobbes

Freemasons- enlightened people, for toleration & progress

The idea that all humans are natrually evil and this caused them to be selfish.

Political

age of enlightened despots

Prussia

frederick the great

Russia

catherine the great

Austria

Subtopic

The age of the "Democratic Revolution"

England and constitutional monarchy

philosophes

John Locke

thomas hobbes

Montisquieu

Montesquieu "the spirit of laws" form of government varies due to climate & circumstances

Technological

steam engine

James watt makes first successful & economic

first ones inefficicient, had to stay in coal mines

Religious

Churches power decreases but is still was seen as a reasonable religion.

The rise of more superstitions

Intellectual

philosophes

John Locke

Rousseau

Thomas Hobes

montisquieu

Montesquieu "the spirit of laws" form of government varies due to climate & circumstances

Voltaire

for religious toleration

difference between good an evil arose from reason. had low opinion of humans

wrote the first secular world history

diderot- first encyclopedia, distinguished contributors

enlightenement

Galileo

Copernicus

geocentric

Bacon

Descartes