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The Enlightment Spreads - Coggle Diagram

- - - - intellects met to discuss ideas.
  - - - Encyclopedia
  - - - " the spread
        of new ideas is often too powerful to stop"
- - - - Under the influence of the Enlightenment, styles began to change. Artists and architects worked in a simple and elegant style that borrowed ideas and themes from classical Greece and Rome
    - - During the Enlightenment, a new, lighter, and more elegant style of music known as classical emerged
        
        Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus
        Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
      - Writers in the 18th century also developed new styles and forms of literature
        
        European authors began writing novels
        
        Their works had carefully crafted plots, used suspense, and explored characters’ thoughts and feelings
- - - - monarchs embraced the new ideas and made reforms that
        reflected the Enlightenment spirit
      - they wanted to make their countries stronger and their own rule more effective
- - - - as Russia was becoming an international power, another great power, Britain, faced a challenge from its North American colonies. Inspired by Enlightenment ideas, colonial leaders decided to do the unthinkable: break away from their ruling country and found an independent republic