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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
The Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment covers the changes from the ancient world and the governments they implemented to the creation of the modern society. New ideas about who should process and distribute knowledge and power change. The middle class becomes more engaged in their society after obtaining autonomy and economic success in the age of Colonialism. There is a search for knowledge and understanding fueled by the Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation. This search and feeling of discontent increases and spreads eventually leading the independence movement in several societies. Students should learn what life was like during the Age of Absolutism and how it changed for the average citizen by the 1700s.
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