
So far, we’ve seen a ton of political change and continuing warfare in the midst of the seventeenth century’s little ice age, and history often focuses on these types of political and military stories, but there were also other changes occurring: shifts in how people perceived the everyday world. Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course European History. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?
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In this video, you'll learn about the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Kant, Smith, Hume, and a bunch of other people whose ideas have been so impactful, they still influence the way we think about the world today. This week, we're talking about the Enlightenment.

Well, prepare yourself for something a little more positive.

So far in this series, we've covered a lot of war, disease, climate disaster, and some more war.
