Kategorier: Alle - religious - government - enlightenment - technological

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Eighteenth Century Europe

The 18th century in Europe was a period marked by significant intellectual, political, social, technological, and religious transformations. The Enlightenment era brought forth a surge in intellectual activity, with figures like Diderot, Voltaire, and Montesquieu contributing to new ideas on reason, secular history, and the nature of government.

Eighteenth Century Europe

Intellectual

enlightenement

Descartes
Bacon
Copernicus
geocentric
Galileo

diderot- first encyclopedia, distinguished contributors

Voltaire
wrote the first secular world history
difference between good an evil arose from reason. had low opinion of humans
for religious toleration
montisquieu
Montesquieu "the spirit of laws" form of government varies due to climate & circumstances
Thomas Hobes
Rousseau

Eighteenth Century Europe

Religious

Churches power decreases but is still was seen as a reasonable religion.
The rise of more superstitions

Technological

steam engine
first ones inefficicient, had to stay in coal mines
James watt makes first successful & economic

Political

philosophes
Montisquieu

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

thomas hobbes
The age of the "Democratic Revolution"
England and constitutional monarchy
age of enlightened despots
Austria

Subtopic

Russia

catherine the great

Prussia

frederick the great

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

Social

Freemasons- enlightened people, for toleration & progress
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
The idea that humans are natrually good and the environment they grow up in forms their opinions and makes who they are.

Economic