| A | B |
|---|
| Voltaire | satirical philosophe who advocated tolerance and freedom of religion |
| John Locke | political thinker advocating self-government |
| Montesquieu | philosophe who advocated separation of powers |
| Thomas Hobbes | political thinker who argued in favor of strong governments |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | political thinker who argued for equal education and political rights of women |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | argued that civilization corrupts human goodness |
| Cesare Bonesana Beccaria | philosopher who influenced reformers of the criminal justice system |
| Denis Diderot | edited and published first encyclopedia |
| Frederick the Great | ruled Russia as an enlightened despot |
| Catherine the Great | rulled Prussia as an enlightened despot |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Articles of Confederation | created first national government of the United States |
| Paris | center of early Enlightenment |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | astronomer who proposed the heliocentric theory |
| Galileo Galilei | invented the first telescope |
