The Significance of Enlightenment Ideas in Causes of Revolutions
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This worksheet explores the importance of Enlightenment ideas as a factor in revolutionary movements, encouraging students to categorize, compare, and analyze their significance.
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The Significance of Enlightenment Ideas in Causes of Revolutions
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Understanding Enlightenment Ideas as a Cause of Revolutions
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason, individual rights, and scientific thinking. Thinkers like John Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau challenged traditional authority and promoted ideas such as liberty, equality, and the social contract. These ideas inspired many revolutionary movements, including the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and others.
Source A: Excerpt from John Locke’s 'Two Treatises of Government' (1690)
'The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. Where there is no law, there is no freedom.' Provenance: Locke’s political philosophy advocating for government based on consent.
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