Unit one
             EDMUND BURKE: wrote "Reflection of the Revolution
             - didn't agree with Fr. 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
             - gov't appealed b/c no one paid
             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
             of property
             -natural rights
             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
             -a poet, and composer of the flute
             EDWARD GIBBONS: wrote " the decline and fall of the roman empire"
             -a masterpiece of historical literature
             "THE SUN KING": King Louis XIV
             -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
             -thought cosmos was sun-centered
             GALILEO: he designed and built the first telescope
             - view of heavens was seen to be a challenge to authority to the Bible and the
             Catholic church
             - discovered that earth wasn't center of the universe
             NEWTON: English psychiatrist and mathematician
             - developed theory of gravity
             ABSOLUTISM: new form of gov't
             -king controls people and institutions w/in kingdom
             -permanent standing army
             -King all powerful
            
            
            
            
            
             Unit Two
             LEVEE EN MASSE: the first general conscription in France
             THE CONTINTENTAL SYSTEM: introduced in 1885: Napoleon
             -designed to impose a continental boyco...