Mindmap
Assessment 1
Mind map: Assessment 1
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Assessment 1
How may we explain the origins and spread of the Enlightenment?
- Adam Smith
- Wrote "The Wealth of Nations"
- Formed main ideas about capitalism
- June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790
- Scotland
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
- England
- Womens rights advocate
- Womens voice through French Revolution
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778
- France
- Known for views on children and women
- Influenced French Revolution with ideas
- Philosopher
- Salons
- Main form of public communication
- Meant as an environmentto spread ideas
- Popular in 17th and 18th century
- Popular among philosophers
- The origins of the Enlightenment are most commonly linked to the thinkers and philosophers from 1680, the spread due to the sweeping ideas and the socializing of those free thinkers
- Adam Smith
Which had a greater impact on the course of Western Civilization – the French Revolution or the Industrial Revolution?
- spinning jenny
- James Hargreaves
- 1764
- Multi-spindle frame for spinning
- Made yarn faster
- Industrial Revolution
- England
- Irish Potato Famine
- Ireland
- 19th Century
- Most of the population died
- Cause by crops destroyed from Blight
- James Watt
- England
- Invented the Watt steam engine
- 30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819
- Industrial Revolution
- Josiah Wedgewood
- England
- Wedgewood Pottery
- Developed new techniques still used today
- 12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795
- Both had a great impact on Western Civilization, The French Revolution providing more ideas, while the Industrial Revolution provided more inventions
- spinning jenny