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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NY-SS

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Analyze how new empirical methods and rationalist thought during the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment transformed understandings of nature, human society, and political authority.

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  3. Isaac Newton: Universal Gravitation, Mathematics, and the Mechanistic UniverseNot started yet
  4. The Scientific Revolution's Impact on Traditional Institutions and ReligionNot started yet
  5. Foundations of Enlightenment: Reason, Natural Rights, and Social Contract TheoryNot started yet
  6. Political Thinkers of the Enlightenment: Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and VoltaireYou are here
  7. Women and the Enlightenment: Salons, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Rights DebatesNot started yet
  8. Enlightened Despotism: Reforming Monarchs and Limits of ChangeNot started yet
  9. The Global Spread of Enlightenment Ideas and Seeds of Political RevolutionNot started yet
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us-ny9.9eNew York Social Studies Standards · 10th Grade

The Enlightenment challenged views of political authority and how power and authority were conceptualized.