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| Created the first encyclopedia |
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| Came up with laws of gravity and motion |
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| Liked free trade (no government interference), capitalism |
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| Came up with natural rights and idea that countries should rebel |
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| Came up with freedom of speech, freedom of religion |
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| Created separation of powers in government (executive, legislative, judicial) |
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| Wrote the “Social Contract,” said people are born free |
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| Wrote the “Social Contract,” also said all people are evil and need an absolute monarch |
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| Created “closed country policy,” used “hostage taking,” banned Christianity |
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| Put a rival to the throne to death, refused to marry |
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| Ignored their country’s financial problems, built a huge castle in Versailles, fought in disasterous wars |
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| Modernized their country by bringing potatoes to their country & creating their country’s first newspaper |
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| Having one monarch control everything in a country, usually due to divine right |
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| Enlightenment scholars believed that using this would have the effect of enabling people to move toward liberty and justice |
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| John Locke believed all people had these, such as life, liberty, and property |
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| A meeting of minds in which philosophes exchanged ideas |
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| The spread of food, diseases, plants, and animals from America to Europe and from Europe to America. |
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| New inventions like the astrolabe, money, desire for luxury goods like spices |
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| Absolute monarchs needed money and had all the power, so they had high __. |
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| A country wants to sell more than it buys, so it gets colonies to get cheap raw materials and a new trade partner |
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