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  • World History: The Early Modern Period
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    • The Atlantic World in the 1600s
    • Global Trade: Europe, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Impact of Global Trade
    • Changing Political Systems and Colonial Conflicts
    • Absolutist Political Systems
    • Reformation and Counter-reformation in Europe
    • The Spread of Islam in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Enlightenment
    • Political Revolutions
    • Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

The Enlightenment

1. Overview
2. The origins of the Enlightenment
3. The European dream of Progress
4. Science and the Enlightenment
5. The impact of the Enlightenment
6. Enlightenment philosophers: Rousseau
7. Enlightenment philosophers: Locke
8. Review

The European dream of Progress

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Reading

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • What developments were there in the Arts during the Enlightenment period?
  • How was the Enlightenment reflected in literature?
  • Who were some key Enlightenment philosophers?

Hackett Lewis, ‘The European Dream of Progress and Enlightenment’, 1992.

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