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18 Cards in this Set
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Handel
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Composed Magnificat
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Bach
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Great German composer
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Wesley
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Founded Methodist movement
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Mesmer
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German physician and astrologist
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Emilei Du Chatelet
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Great mathematics thinker. Rare woman of the enlightenment
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Madanle de Geoffrin
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Woman of enlightenment. Worked with great thinkers of the time
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Voltaire
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Arguably the greatest enlightenment thinker. fought for ideas of freedom of religion and other rights
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Rousseau
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great french philosopher. Wrote on education and politics
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Montesquieu
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French enlightenment thinker. Wrote on separation of powers
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Quesnay
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Physician in the court of Louis XIV
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Condorcet
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Argued for public education and constitutionalism among other things
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Mesmerism
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Mesmerizing, invented by Mesmer
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Freemasonry
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group growing out of enlightenment time period. Belief in higher being while using reason as well
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Illuminati
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power behind throne group. some say they were behind french revolution
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Spirit of the Laws
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Book by Montesquieu which argued different things including that forms of gvt differed by climate and circumstance
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General will
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majority
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Separation of powers
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Preventing one person from having complete and total control
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Idea of progress
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Idea humans can improve their condition
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