Charter of towns 1792Catherine the great extended civl liberties to Russian Jews
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Enlightenment views of religionOverall, religion was increasingly viewed as a matter of private, rather than public concern. Structures of society grew increasingly secular.
The enlightenmentEnlightenment thinkers applied new methods of reasoning to politics, and human institutions
Denis DiderotCollaborated with other enlightened thinkers to edit and publish an encyclopedia that contained a rational explanation for everything.
Nicolaus CopernicusChallenged the geocentric model of the universe through mathematics and put forward the heliocentric model, where everything orbits the sun.
Scientific method
These new ideas from Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo are challenging established beliefs of the Catholic Church during the catholic counter reformation. The geocentric model fit nicely with scripture so the church stuck with it.
Geocentric model of the universeEvery body in the galaxy circled around the earth, including the sun. This was the Catholic Churches view and presumed model of the universe in midevil europe
Enlightened absolutists monarchsFrederick the great of Prussia: tried to help the people. Increased freedoms of press and speech to weaken the nobility and strengthen his power.
Inductive reasoningUsing specific observations to create general principles
Thanks to new technologies, fewer people were required for farming, leading many to move to the cities.
Atheism
Contagious Diseases Act
Humoral theory of the bodyThe body is made up of 4 substances: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and flem? Imbalance of these 4 lead to disease. This is where blood letting came from
GalenAncient Greek doctor who advanced the humoral theory of the body
Consumer RevolutionMiddle and upper classes had more income, rise in demand for goods increased. People began wanting larger homes and more privacy and new venues for leisure
Voltaire
French thinkers
Thomas HobbesThere is no morality in the state of nature. You need government to order the chaos of nature
a cheap apartment building often crammed with people created in response to the influx of people moving into cities
Adam Smith, The Wealth of NationsAttacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.
Enlightened Absolutism
Johannes KeplerAffirmed Copernicus’ findings and through complex math of his own, found that plants orbit in ellipses, not perfect circles
Built a telescope and observed that other planets and moons, existed, and weren’t just balls of light
Reading RevolutionThe transition in Europe from a society where literacy consisted of patriarchal and communal reading of religious texts to a society where literacy was commonplace and reading material was broad and diverse. Books also became less religious. So religious censorship increased
Despite him being a devote catholic, the pope ruled him a heretic and placed him under house arrest. But his books were published after his death
Francis Bacon
A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.
DeismVoltaire argued that there was a god, but god didn’t intervene in human affairs.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Population increases in the 1700sRising birth rates, improving medical technology, vaccines, and bubonic plague went away
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A French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy. Similar ideas to John Locke. Idea of the social contract
Deductive reasoningUsing general principles to determine specific consitions
Inductive reasoning
Humoral theory of the bodyThe body is made up of 4 substances: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and flem? Imbalance of these 4 lead to disease. This is where blood letting came from
AtheismDiderot defined it as someone who knows about god, but actively rejects his existence
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire argued that there was a god, but god didn’t intervene in human affairs.
Nicolaus CopernicusChallenged the geocentric model of the universe through mathematics and put forward the heliocentric model, where everything orbits the sun.
Thanks to new technologies, fewer people were required for farming, leading many to move to the cities.
Johannes KeplerAffirmed Copernicus’ findings and through complex math of his own, found that plants orbit in ellipses, not perfect circles
Argued that natural rights were given by god, not a government, so a government couldn’t take them away. Therefore power originates with the people
Scientific methodDuring the scientific Revolution, the scientific method was invented, which emphasizes observations and experimentation
The enlightenment
Charter of towns 1792
Coffee Houses
GalenAncient Greek doctor who advanced the humoral theory of the body
Enlightenment views of religionOverall, religion was increasingly viewed as a matter of private, rather than public concern. Structures of society grew increasingly secular.
Contagious Diseases ActThis allowed police officers to arrest any woman they suspected to be a prostitute. They were then permitted to give that woman an examination to prevent the spread of STDs. This is state-sponsered sexual assault.
Natural rightsThe idea that human beings, just by virtue of being human, possess rights like life liberty and property
NeoclassicismIn the later 1700s, the nature and subject of art shifted from state and religious themes to themes that appealed to bourgeoisie society
Enlightened Absolutisma system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers. Rulers only acted enlightened when it benefitted them.
Francis Bacon
Copernicus and keplers books ended up on the index of prohibited booksThese new ideas from Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo are challenging established beliefs of the Catholic Church during the catholic counter reformation. The geocentric model fit nicely with scripture so the church stuck with it.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of NationsAttacked mercantilist economics. Promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics.
Consumer Revolution
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women
Popes response to galieleoDespite him being a devote catholic, the pope ruled him a heretic and placed him under house arrest. But his books were published after his death
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)Argued that women and men were equal, and anything women seemed inferior at, it was only because they had been denied education and opportunities by men