Aquamarine (Be. Aquamarine is typically associated with quartz, feldspars and muscovite, and often occurs with other pegmatite accessory minerals such as biotite, garnet, phenakite and topaz. Because of aquamarine's relatively high hardness and specific gravity, it is sometimes found in eluvial and aluvial deposits.
A revolution in France that overthrew the monarchy and is often cited as the end of the Enlightenment. The French Revolution began in 1789 when King Louis XVI convened the legislature in an attempt to solve Franceâs monumental financial woes. Instead, the massive middle class revolted and set up its own government.
The Enlightenment began in the 1700âs, in the latter part of the Absolute Era. It began in France but it spread across Europe as well. It was an era in which philosophers used the methods of new science to solve the problems of society. Napoleon adopted the Enlightenment approach to problems. He made transportation easier by creating infrastructure. Like Voltaire, a great Enlightenment thinker, Napoleon was interested in education, and funded the construction of new schools in France. He also was committed to the Enlightenment support of reason and logic, and its distaste for superstition and myth.