How may we explain the origins and spread of the Enlightenment?
Adam Smith
Wrote "The Wealth of Nations"
Formed main ideas about capitalism
June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790
Scotland
Mary Wollstonecraft
27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
England
Womens rights advocate
Womens voice through French Revolution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778
France
Known for views on children and women
Influenced French Revolution with ideas
Philosopher
Salons
Main form of public communication
Meant as an environmentto spread ideas
Popular in 17th and 18th century
Popular among philosophers
The origins of the Enlightenment are most commonly linked to
the thinkers and philosophers from 1680, the spread due to the
sweeping ideas and the socializing of those free thinkers
Which had a greater impact on the course of Western Civilization – the French Revolution or the Industrial Revolution?
spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
1764
Multi-spindle frame for spinning
Made yarn faster
Industrial Revolution
England
Irish Potato Famine
Ireland
19th Century
Most of the population died
Cause by crops destroyed from Blight
James Watt
England
Invented the Watt steam engine
30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819
Industrial Revolution
Josiah Wedgewood
England
Wedgewood Pottery
Developed new techniques still used today
12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795
Both had a great impact on Western Civilization, The French
Revolution providing more ideas, while the Industrial
Revolution provided more inventions