HIST 102- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 37 pages long!)
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Letters on england 1733- the letters on england on 1733 are band in france which meant everyone was wanting to read it and copies were being smuggled in. Many people considered him an atheist and persona of non-profit. Hes attacking meaningless traditions, want"s institutions to be rational, wants kings and nobles to look after people below them. More religious toleration and association of people of different classes is learned from the letter son england of 1733. He gets sent to the bastille (political prison), he gets out, and then gets exiled. Voltaire spends the rest of his life exiled writing satire, writing all the things that are wrong with the political system and all the meaningless institutions. Denis diderot 1713-1784- wanted to use science to make the world better. He wasn"t a great scientist, did not" discover many theories, he compiled the world"s first encyclopedia which is a masterpiece.
