HST 101 Lecture Notes - Toussaint Louverture, Corn Laws, Authoritarianism
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Colonial wars and fiscal crises: rivalry among the european powers intensified in the early 1600s as the dutch attacked spanish and portuguese possessions in the americas and in asia. The enlightenment and the old order: the enlightenment thinkers sought to apply the methods and questions of the. Scientific revolution to the study of human society. One way of doing so was to classify and systematize knowledge; another way was to search for natural laws that were thought to underlie human affairs and to devise scientific techniques of government and social regulation. John locke argued that governments were created to protect the people; he emphasized the importance of individual rights. Jean jacques rousseau asserted that the will of the people was sacred; he believed that people would act collectively on the basis of their shared historical experience. 20: not all enlightenment thinkers were radicals or atheists.
