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
