American Enlightenment

in english drawing rooms and discussed things such as government, politics, economics, and social struggles. This brought about the Age of Reason or Enlightenment Period. The Enlightenment was a time that brought thought and reason to the people in society with the help of philosophers. John Locke was one of the many philosopher of The Enlightenment who believed in natural rights and equality of man, although relate to class or position. Locke states in his writing Second Treatise on Civil…

There’s was a time that The Dark Ages took fear in people's life but in the late 17th and 18th century The Enlightenment Ages was born. In Europe, well known philosophers from all over the world help the world with new ideas and invention that changed people's point of views and people's principles. The philosophers that really took the world by storm with the ideas and views were Voltaire, Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and John Locke. These brilliant Piliphersers Main point is that they want…

castle. They spend their money very foolishly, ( clothing, jewelry, parties) and the money they took, never was replaced/put back again. Last, QUeen Marie Antoinette was seen as a wasteful person. Lastly, Government founds its founding of the American revolution . In Summary, The economy the economy or bankrupt were failing. There was a lot of farming and also was a large part of the economy, is there was a drought or…

In world history we have come across many different changes.Revolution can bring about both positive and negative affect also political and economical effect.There were many changes in the scientific revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Both revolutions had an impact on the world. The scientific revolution is the emerge of modern science during the early modern period when developments in mathematics,physics,biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature also the way human…

The notion of changing the goal from freedom to the happiness of the people is problematic because everyone has their own definition of what happiness is and what it means to them. Pulling the political community apart on account of the focus of individual needs, goals, happiness, and personal agendas collapses the collectively needed in order to thrive as a free political nation. Revolutions, according to Ardent, tend to start in freedom and end in violence because liberty tend to rise at the…

By the time James Gillray began his prolific career as a caricaturist, European interest in the ‘science’ of physiognomy was being reawakened and popularized by Enlightenment scholars, most significantly through the writings of Johann Caspar Lavater. Lavater attempted to decipher the universal language of facial expression and outer appearance to understand and categorize the hidden character traits of humans. A caricaturist by definition will purposely exaggerate and distorting the human form…

The French Revolution, from 1789 to 1799, was a revolution in France that occurred due to the frustration of the third estate. The Haitian Revolution, from 1791 to 1804, was a revolution in one of the French colonies, called St.Domingue (present-day Haiti). This revolution is mainly about how the enslaved Africans revolted against the brutal conditions in the Haiti sugar plantations. These two revolutions are connected because the events in France incited some of the major events in Haiti. For…

The eighteenth century, Rococo era, was a light-hearted time being pre-revolutionary. This was a period the postmodern world would attempt to emulate. Rococo was a time of, intellectual, social, and political achievements. Not until the eighteenth century did many of the plans and ideas of the last one-hundred years were finally undertaken. Mathematics and the sciences were being accepted and embraced. They were changing the way that society thought and acted. Democracy began to seed in the…

Napoleon's Changes Napoleon made many great changes in our world , but he also made some bad ones. One thing for sure, he was a great leader. Napoleon's first change was improving education. He restarted the primary schools and made new secondary system schools, called lycees, while ,also, making many other schools for the people. He improved the training teachers received and promoted education for girls as well. Napoleon ,also, made his own laws called the “Napoleonic Code”. These laws were…

Since the time that King Louis XVI became the king of France in 1774, the country started to suffer abounding affairs. All of the abounding affairs France had was caused by King Louis XVI, which later led to French Revolution. The French Revolution was primarily created by the social inequalities, economy, and political reasons. King Louis XVI ruled by the divine right theory which made him control all of the country's decisions, The Social inequalities of France during the 18th century was very…