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Pass needed acts to better control the state Could create helpful alliances with other

countries

Could create political and trading alliances with their marriages

Gives land to soldiers for loyalty to the monarch or for a victory in a major battle

Could grant the money for exploration of unknown places

Create colonies to further spread the country’s power

Could choose the religion that the state had to follow

_ Catholic vs. Protestant Only one person with all the power Greed, corruption, and favoritism shown Could imprison someone with no need of it

being legally correct Unfair taxes on the lower classes, giving

nobles the least to pay

Always had to have a close, trusted friend in the court of the monarch

Had to have some time yourself spent at court showing your loyalty toward the monarch

The monarch could show favoritism toward some nobles

Unfair in ruling the state

Natural human rights- Have the right to freedom of speech

Equality– Widely believed in, Sparked both the American and French revolutions

Freedom of religion Logical explanation for something once

believed to be godChurch thought that these ideas were heresy,

meaning the church could excommunicate, torture, jail or even executed the “heretics”

John Locke’s Two Treaties of Government- Gives the ideas of self government and Power from the people

Voltaire’s Candid- influenced the U.S. Constitution- freedom of speech, freedom of religious beliefs

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract- Gave the idea of voting

Baron de Montesquieu’s Of the Spirit of Laws- his ideas were the main basis of the Constitution

Denis Diderot’s encyclopedia- made other’s articles and essays available to the public therefore spreading the Enlightenment’s idea faster

Sir Isaac Newton- developed the laws of motion, explaining that all motion can be measured and defined, invented the reflection telescope

Galileo - improved the telescope, proving that Copernicus was indeed correct to state that the sun was the center of our universe

Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes develop the scientific method

Science disproved that alchemy could turn non precious metals into gold

Robert Boyle- found the differences between the elements and the chemical compounds that make the elements up

Sir Isaac Newton- created calculus, binomial theorem, made a systematic way of integrating algebra into geometry

Mary Wollstonecraft- an author that was a head of her time. She wrote that women need an education to be useful in society just like men

Before the Enlightenment the style was very ornate and grand but with the changing of times people fell back on the classical look, elegant, and harmonious

Painted by Joshua Reynolds, Duchess of Bedford, 1756

Painted by Johannes de Eyck, Arnolfini and his wife, c. 15th century