Download Reason and Revolution: 1500

The Enlightenment
Understanding Goal:
Ideas inspire action.
Investigative Question:
What resulted from the ideas and actions of the Enlightenment?
Explore:
The Enlightenment was an eighteenth-century movement in
European and American philosophy that emphasized reason,
science, rationality and a dissatification with repressive rule. How
might the ideas of the Enlightenment have countered the
established ideals of the time? How might the sources above
reflect this opposition?
Connect:
Can you think of any countries in the world today that have not yet
experienced an “enlightenment”? Explain.
World History
and Geography:
C.E to
the Present
Learn:
Go to LOC.gov
to find further1500
examples
of primary
sources that
depict important people or events of the Enlightenment, such as
those found in the exhibition, Creating French Culture: Treasures
from the Bibliothèque Nationale.
de France
World History and Geography: 1500 C.E to the Present
The Enlightenment
Library of Congress Resources Used:
Locke, J (1690). Two Treatises of Government. . Library of Congress:
Exhibitions, World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings.
Rousseau, J. (1762). Du Contrat Social: ou Principes du Droit Politique. Library
Of Congress: Exhibitions, World Treasures of the Library of Congress:
Beginnings.
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