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Enlightenment
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05/31/2011
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Enlightenment
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Period in 1700s in which people rejected traditional ideas and supported a belief in human rights
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Philosophes
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French thinkers at the heart of the Enlightenment who believed that reason could be applied to all aspects of life
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Heliocentric Theory
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Theory that the sun, not the earth was the center of the universe
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Geocentric Theory
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Theory that the earth was the center of the universe
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Natural Rights
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Life, Liberty, and Property
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