Enlightenment

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Analysis- What can you infer about the enlightenment after hearing about it?

Synthesis- Predict the outcome if the enlightenment never happen.

Evaluation- What is your opinion of the enlightenment. Explain.

By: Taylor Gray Enlightenment-It was the idea that reason and logic could improve society. Enlightenment = noun Dictionary deff.- a movement in the 18 century they believed that reason and logic. My deff. A type of government that believed that reason and logic can improve things. Sentence- the enlightenment was an act that says reason and logic improve government. Scientific revolution- Scientific revolution = noun Dictionary deff- new ideas about science and physics. My deff. When the came up with new Ideas about science. Sentence- The scientific revolution is a time period that people came up with new ideas about science. John locke John locke = noun Dictionary deff. He was a the father of liberalism. My deff.A man who was know as the father of liberalism. Sentence- john locke was a man that is known as the father of liberalism.
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 * Text-Self: Like the Enlightenment that helped the society with having better knoledge of things, I have helped with multiple problems with the community. They are similar, because it brings people to acknoledge thoughts and actions they don't know about.
 * Text-Text: Books talk about community service, ministries around the world, and disasters around the world and how it brings people together to think about how and what can be better for the society. That is similar to the Enlightenment because that is exactly what it talks about. How knoledge can improve society.
 * Text-World: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment is sort of similar to the ending of the Dark Ages, because they both made life easier then it was before.

Summary--- During the 1600s Europeans began to examine their world again. Scientists began to better understand the laws of nature. Their new ideas about the universe began the Scientific Revolution. It cahnged the way people thought of the world. Many colonists were influenced by the Enlightenment. This movement, that took place during the 1700s, spread the idea that logic and reason could enhance society. It also changed how people thought the government should work. Some thought that there was a social contract between citizens and government. Philosophers such as John Locke thought that people had natural rights such as liberty and equality. Eventually, ideas of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment influenced colonial leaders. Kelli Zeleski