Enlightenment Notes

The Enlightenment, or The Age of Reason -all of a sudden, people took all they were learning about science and decided to apply it to society -absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, or something else, people experiment to discover which one works best -people collect data, they study it, analyze it, and record it, then come to a conclusion -first man to do this was John Hobbes -he is an English subject, defended concept of absolute monarch …

…that holds a nifty new invention being used to execute people, used for entertainment, guillotine this began a time period known as the reign of terror at least 100,000 people were executed, we believe it could have been 200,000 eventually people turn and look at Robespierre, he is one of the last people executed louis was found guilty and guillotined, great courage, marie antoinette was found guilty and guillotined, boy died before anyone came back for him