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Age of Enlightenment Review

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This deck covers key figures, concepts, and events from the Age of Enlightenment, focusing on influential philosophers, scientists, and cultural shifts.

First country to limit a king's power with Parliament.

England
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First country to limit a king's power with Parliament.
England
he wrote the book "leviathan" and said life without a strong ruler would be nasty, brutish, and short
Thomas Hobbes
she urged women to enter politics and argued for women's rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
The king of England must share power with this group.
Parliament
This french philosopher used satire to push for freedom of speech.
Voltaire
Italian astronomer who used a telescope to prove theories.
Galileo

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TermDefinition
First country to limit a king's power with Parliament.
England
he wrote the book "leviathan" and said life without a strong ruler would be nasty, brutish, and short
Thomas Hobbes
she urged women to enter politics and argued for women's rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
The king of England must share power with this group.
Parliament
This french philosopher used satire to push for freedom of speech.
Voltaire
Italian astronomer who used a telescope to prove theories.
Galileo
Heliocentric theory says this is at the center of the universe.
Sun
Polish scientist who discovered planetary motion
Kepler
Where people would gather to talk during the Enlightenment
Salons
deaf composer
Beethoven
Enlightenment age composer of "the Marriage of Figaro"
Mozart
found out how blood circulates
William Harvey
French Romantic painter
Delacroix
He wrote the American Declaration of Independence based on Enlightened ideas.
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote "On the Spirit of Laws about Checks and Balances."
Montesqueiu
Came up with the theory of gravity
Newton
Philosopher from England who said all people have the right to life, liberty, & property.
John Locke
Wrote the Social Contract about the agreement between society and its government.
Rosseau
He wrote the first European novel- Don Quixote
Cervantes