The middle class turned to the ideas of the Enlightenment to gain equality during French Revolution and the poor people turned to rioting to try to gain some power because they did not have the knowledge the middle class people had. Document 4 states the philosophers and thinkers of the Enlightenment period used methods of science to help improve society. ... The United States used also used the ideas of Enlightenment to help form the American constitution that was considered to be a democratic nation. ...

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Enlightenment Essay Test Between the seventeenth and eighteenth century there was a revolutionary intellectual movement-taking place, known as the Age of Enlightenment. ... Voltaire's opinion on authority is exactly what many people at this time were thinking, hence the reason that authority was virtually powerless during the Enlightenment. ... When the Enlightenment began many new ideas were circulating the globe. ...

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Then in the eighteenth century came the Age of Enlightenment. ... In Voltaire's Candide, the mockery and criticism of the monarchy and the church system during the Enlightenment Age are obvious in this book. ...

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He succeeded his father as magistrate and lived during the Enlightenment. ... He was a reformed for the Age of Enlightenment and believed slavery, torture and persecution because of religion are wrong. ...

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He succeeded his father as magistrate and lived during the Enlightenment. ... He was a reformed for the Age of Enlightenment and believed slavery, torture and persecution because of religion are wrong. ...

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When Xantippe said, "Dear, your death is not justified," the 70-year-old Socrates responded, "You don't wish my death to be justified." The ancient Greek philosopher was determined to accept his unjust fate with dignity. He might have wanted to prove his innocence to his fellow citizens of A...

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n Myths10 America Is the most powerful country in the world, living in a dream? Well, ten of America's most widely know phrases; four of what we know as liberties, are myths. The American dream, just that a dream. Individualism, I am me, is something of the past. America's melting pot that is...

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Revolutions begin as a protest against tyranny, but end by creating a state far more powerful than the one that they replace. Discuss with reference to France and Russia. The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the...

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