the enlightenment (1 dez 1650 ano – 1 nov 1800 ano)
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-The king Jacob took over when Elizabeth died but he was not advanced like her. under this period people began to think more logic by not belive in magic and church anymore and reject them. that consequences church power alot. people belived that the knowledge come through experience, critical thinking and argumentation. further more they belived that everybody is born equal.
- people changed their way of clothing and they began to take care about hair by using wigs, the reason why is that people wanted to look more good, elegant and fancy. that was an overlap to the romantic period. The starting point of the middle class was that people became more literate, restraint, good manners, common sense, appearances, the made a formal style, elegance coffee houses, chocolate and tea. Neoclassical architecture it means new classical as the white house and the buildings were often round. The byzantine was the reason to why the architecture became better than before.
The enlightenment (the age of reason) transform almost all of europe and causing dramatic changes in the church as well as new developments in scientific technology. in addition new thinkers introduced new ideas and perspective on human nature. the human reason was the answer to a better world . The enlightenment was a time for math and physics, but now physic started to be studied in Europe by looking closly to the pyramids.
-There were many scientists that was an important part of this period as galileo galilei who was an Italian astronomer,engineer and physicist. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science". He built telescope that he belived tha it gave him the ability to look up to the heavens and see angels.
-Voltaire was a french Enlightenment writer, philisopher and historian. He criticied alot about the christianity, especially the catholic church. He wanted freedom of religion and speech and seperate the church from the state. he wrote many plays, novels, poems, essays, scientific and historical works and he was an advocate of civil liberties.
