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AP World History: Modern›Unit 5: Revolutions, 1750–1900›Political Revolutions

Enlightenment Ideas

Enlightenment thinkers questioned inherited authority and argued for natural rights and the social contract. Those ideas powered revolutions across the Atlantic world.

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Locke, Rousseau, MontesquieuNatural rightsFrom ideas to revolutions

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Also called: locke, rousseau, social contract, natural rights