Enlightenment Context Timeline

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    The Thirty Years war

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    Rene Descartes publishes his philosophical Meditations

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    The English Civil War

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    Thomas Hobbes Leviathan

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    John Locke's Two Treatises of Government

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    Baron Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws

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    Voltaire's "Essay on Customs"

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    The Seven Years War

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    Rousseau's Social Contract

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    Diderot's Encyclopedia

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    Kant's "What is the Enlightenment"

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    Thomas Malthus "Essay on the Principle of Population"