Enlightenment

⚡ Enlightenment Super Cheat Sheet

• Time: 1650–1800

• Core idea: Reason > tradition

🧠 Key Ideas

• Natural rights (life, liberty, property)

• Social contract

• Government by the people

• Progress through science

👤 Thinkers

• Locke → natural rights

• Hobbes → strong gov

• Rousseau → popular sovereignty

• Montesquieu → separation of powers

• Voltaire → free speech

• Wollstonecraft → women’s rights

🌍 Effects

• American & French Revolutions

• Democracy + constitutions rise

• Decline of absolute monarchies

Bottom line: Enlightenment = reason + rights → revolutions + modern democracy