[Lecture] Enlightenment, Coffee, & Voltaire

Three things that go well together: Enlightenment, Coffee, & Voltaire!

The Enlightenment: Logic & Scientific Discovery
The Atlantic Economy Fuels the Enlightenment
Coffee Houses, Newspapers, Tobacco
Louis XIV & Huguenots; Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Triangle of the Enlightenment: PAL
Atheism & Deism
Slavery
Voltaire

Absolutism & Louis XIV

Absolutism & Louis XIV

Absolutism vs. Constitutionalism
Time Orientation: Atlantic Trade & Great Wealth
Colonization & Slave Trade
New Crops: High Volume = Great Wealth
Taxes
Wealth goes to the center of the government
Feudalist Economy vs. Absolutist Economy
Enlightened Despots
Producing Great Works
Hobbes vs. Locke
Louis XIV
Versailles