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The Global Spread of Enlightenment Ideas and Seeds of Political Revolution
Trace how Enlightenment political philosophy diffused across the Atlantic, laying ideological groundwork for revolutionary movements in the Americas and Europe.
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The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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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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