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Enlightenment


            The age of the Enlightenment is when, during the eighteenth century, people began to question authority, religion and philosophize about life and science. The influential thinkers and writers of this period were called philosophes. These included Descartes, Pascal, Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. Their four main points were: 1. To question the traditional authority, and traditional ideas of the Old Regime. 2. Believe in the existence of natural laws. 3. establish these laws as basis of human activity through human reasoning and 4. Hope everything would be perfected when we adhere to these natural laws. When the philosophes began to get their ideas out, people began to question authority. It was basically the working class who began this movement, or progress. The increase in literacy, fading of mercantilism and an increase of prosperity, bringing confidence, all contributed to the age of revolution, both in Europe and America. Now armed with the philosophes pamphlets and books putting down the ways of the rulers, governments and corruption of the Catholic church, they were able to take the necessary steps to revolt against the Old Regime.
            


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