The Enlightenment

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  1. 2. British abolitionist who campaigned to end slavery
  2. 4. Wrote a book called the Social Contract about how government should reflect the will of the people
  3. 7. Period of time when people began to use reason to understand the world
  4. 10. Invention that allowed books to be printed more easily which increased the literacy rate
  5. 11. the number of people who can read
  6. 13. Enlightened despot who ruled Russian and believed in education for women
  7. 14. rights that a everyone has because they are human
  8. 15. Enlightenment philosopher who believed that everyone had natural rights and that government should be based on the ideas of the people (consent of the governed)
Down
  1. 1. First writer to argue that women also had natural rights in her book
  2. 3. the monarch's power comes from good
  3. 5. People began to use reason to understand the laws of the natural world
  4. 6. Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech
  5. 8. Absolute ruler who also believed in some Enlightenment ideas
  6. 9. a king or queen (monarch) has 100% control
  7. 12. Rebirth of European culture when artists and scientists rediscovered teachings of Ancient Greece and Rome