EDMUND BURKE: wrote "Reflection of the Revolution
- felt it tried to change fr. Overnight
THOMAS JEFFERSON: brains of U.S. revolution
- helped write Declaration of Independence
HOGARTH: developed a new art form: engraving
THE STAMP ACT: taxes imposed on items that were "stamped"
- enraged the colonists b/c was an indirect tax
DENNIS DIDEROT: "knowledge is through experience and observation"
-All new human knowledge written down in one book
LOCKE: believed state of nature was a relatively peaceful place
-believed in a system of gov't that would guarantee life, freedom, and protection
ROUSSEAU: "Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.."
-concept of gov't in hands of people
THOMAS HOBBES: "The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.."
-man can't survive w/out law and order
FRED II OF PRUSSIA: an enlightened monarch
EDWARD GIBBONS: wrote " the decline and fall of the roman empire"
-a masterpiece of historical literature
-b/c everything revolved around him
ROBESPIERRE: leader of the Jacobins
-representative to the estates general
COPERNICUS: issued the 1st substance challenge to the cosmetology of the Middle Ages
GALILEO: he designed and built the first telescope
- view of heavens was seen to be a challenge to authority to the Bible and the
- discovered that earth wasn't center of the universe
NEWTON: English psychiatrist and mathematician
-king controls people and institutions w/in kingdom
LEVEE EN MASSE: the first general conscription in France
THE CONTINTENTAL SYSTEM: introduced in 1885: Napoleon
-designed to impose a continental boycott of all Frances subjects and friends
on English trade in order to decrease English exports...ruining Eng. industry
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: over 150 years of inventions and ideas
-transformed nature of Western society
ARNOLD TOYNBEE: Oxford scholar-lectured on Industrial revolution
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