The enlightenment and Scientific Revoulution

-Earth is the center of the universe
-Supported by the Roman Catholic church

-The belief that sun is in the center of the universe
-Copernicus came up with this theory
-Galileo supported the theory by proving it using his telescope
-Catholic Church didn't support this theory because it went against their geocentric beliefs

-New technology
-Scientific Method
-Women's rights/women in science

People started to question what they had been told and what they believed, relied on their minds instead of authorities.

The concept of Natural Laws was used to challenge the divine rights of monarchs and became a justification for a social contract, positive laws, and government and legal laws to be formed.

-Argued that every person was born with a blank mind
-Life, liberty, and property
-democracy
-Opposed mercantilism and the church

-Wrote the Social Contract
-Rights with boundaries

-civil liberties and natural rights
*freedom of speech
*separation between the church and state

-Used the Scientific Method to discover natural laws and agreed with Hobbes
-Identified 3 basic types of government
-Encouraged separation of powers

-Founder of modern European and American movement for Natural Rights
-Pointed out that the power men had over women was wrong

Government to leave the society alone. This would positively affect society because people are free to pursue and make money how they want to which would attract more funds for the economy.

-New way of thinking about culture, government, people, and the arts.
-Europe
-1700's

-People are born naturally bad
-believed in a monarchy
-supported the roman catholic church

Life, Liberty, and Property

Locke, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

1. Common Sense
2. Declaration of Independence
3. Articles of Confederation
4. Constitution
5. Bill of Rights

Total control by a monarch. Supported by the Roman Catholic Church.

-Austria
-Ruled with his mom
-Tried to flip Austria: unsuccessful

-Expanded Russia
-Killed her husband

-Prussia
-Abolished torture
-Expanded land

-Formed the 4th largest military
-Prussia

-A new way of thinking
-Challenged the church
-Europe
-Mid 1500's

-Supporter of the Heliocentric theory
-Created the laws of gravity

-First scientist
-Advocated for naturalism

Father of modern chemistry

Discovered and specialized in circulation of blood and heart

-Astronomer
-Discovered a comet

-Rationalism
-Scientific Method

belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by importing and exporting