The Age of Enlightenment

1. Also called Age of the Reason.

2. Revolutions

3. Rulers

4. Thinkers

5. Voltaire, Montesquieu, Locke, Wollstonecraft

6. France, Latin America

7. Monarchy and the end of it.

7.1. example Louis XVI

8. France suffered from inequality among the social classes, called States.

9. Divine right: Power directly from God.

10. Reason: the power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way

11. Enlightened despots: absolute monarchs who applied certain ideas.

11.1. Frederick the Great

12. Bourgeoisie: middle class, made up of relatively prosperous and educated professionals and merchants.