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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the market revolution

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a consequence of the grocery store running out of butter led by General [People mad at grocery store running out of butter]

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Gordon Ramsay...Hells kitchens got nothing on this guy all right we'll take

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a look at this image....

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And here's the question supporters of the image would argue that the Philosopher's of

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the Enlightenment were mostly inspired by which of the following and here are your

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potential answers.... what is this image exactly aside from a

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really weird Venn diagram..well, these circles are Nicholai Copernicus way of [Hand pointing to Venn diagram]

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illustrating his theory that the center of the universe is the Sun as opposed to

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the earth, might sound reasonable to us now but in the 16th century was a

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totally crazy idea like saying Pluto isn't a planet or something okay okay so [Lots of planets looking at pluto]

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we're not over the loss of Pluto yet can you blame us? it was the cutest planet

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anyway back to business what would heliocentrist believe inspired the

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philosophers of the Enlightenment could it be A the Reformation well the

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Reformation of the church led to the creation of absolutism absolute power [Martin Luther in a lab]

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held by the monarch but enlightenment philosophers were fundamentally opposed

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to the idea of absolutism and vocally argued against it so if inspiration

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works how we think it works A is not our answer but we guess you can be inspired

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by something you hate for example we hate that dumb boy band song that's [Man listening to boy band song]

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always on the radio and it inspires us to sing along loudly because maybe while

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we know all the words what we're very thorough in our hate what about D the

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age of discovery well this period of extensive overseas exploration ended [Ship travelling overseas]

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well before the start of the Enlightenment in the 18th century and

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was only vaguely related to it they were like the third step cousins twice

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removed or something so that eliminates D...Could enlightenment philosophers have

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been inspired by C the Scientific Revolution well sorta more like a

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spin-off of the Scientific Revolution characterized by expansion of the [Lots of people in a market place]

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marketplace via the construction of new roads and canals, which actually perfectly

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describes choice B the market revolution So B is the correct answer..

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As a result of the Scientific Revolution science became the Philosopher's go-to [Woman working in a lab]

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method for understanding the world.. Two enlightenment philosophers in particular

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Locke and Buffon give a shout out to the movement for inspiring enlightenment

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thought and by shout out we mean more eloquent and probably lengthy prose than

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verse on their mixtape yeah but you knew that already, these guys are great but

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they couldn't exactly pull off the chain and grill look sorry.. [Locke and Buffon at a disco]

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