Alright—this page is actually SUCH a good one for clean, aesthetic notes ✨ I’ve turned it into your pastel-style, easy-to-revise points (nothing important skipped 👇)
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🌸 INTRODUCING THE BIRTH OF A MODERN WORLD
🌟 New Ideas for a New Age (Enlightenment)
• The Enlightenment was a movement in the 18th century
• People began to:
• Question old beliefs 🤔
• Use reason & logic instead of tradition
• It challenged:
• Superstitions 👻
• Blind faith in authority
💡 Key Idea: Humans can understand the world using science and reasoning
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🧠 What is the Enlightenment?
• A period of intellectual growth
• Focus on:
• Science 🔬
• Knowledge 📚
• Human progress 🚀
• Encouraged:
• Freedom of thought
• Questioning authority
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📖 The Encyclopaedia
• Published in 1751
• A huge collection of knowledge (over 70,000 articles!)
• Spread Enlightenment ideas across Europe 🌍
• Goal:
• Make knowledge available to everyone
• Educate society
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🧛♂️ Strange Beliefs (Fun Fact Section)
• Some people believed in vampires 🧛
• Example:
• Villagers thought dead people returned to life
• Enlightenment thinkers:
• Rejected these beliefs ❌
• Promoted logic & science instead
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🌿 Ideas of the Enlightenment
🧍♂️ Individualism
• Every person is important
• Everyone has:
• Basic rights ✊
• Freedom
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🧠 Reason
• Truth comes from:
• Thinking logically
• Evidence
• Not from tradition or religion alone
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🌍 Progress
• Society can improve over time 📈
• Humans can make the world better
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🏛️ Skepticism
• Question everything ❓
• Don’t blindly accept ideas
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⚖️ Government
• Government should:
• Serve the people 👥
• Protect rights
• NOT have unlimited power
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🌾 Influence of the Enlightenment
• Ideas spread to:
• Politics
• Society
• Economy
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🚜 Changes in Agriculture
1. New farming methods 🌱
2. More food production 🍞
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