People

• Thomas Paine


  A self-educated activist, most famous work was Common Sense, the most widely distributed pamphlet during the American Revolution
• Thomas Paine attacked Britain as monarchical, aristocratic and corrupt, advised the American colonists to have full independence with Britain, argued for citizen's natural rights to life, liberty and property, said that legitimate governments must be based on consent and on the sovereignty of the people, and the people's rights should be in a written constitution
• Karl Marx


  A philosopher, social scientist and historian who argued that history could be interpreted as a cycle of struggles between classes, argued capitalism created inequality in society, thought the working class would overthrow the system and bring end to oppression, inequality and injustice, advocated socialism
• Mary Wollstonecraft


  A self-educated English radical who advocated rights for women, argued that Enlightenment ideals should be used to educate women so that it would release them from male domination, most famous book was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, extended the idea of equality
• Charles Darwin


  A British naturalist whose theories about evolution radically changed the way that people saw themselves and their world, theories challenged the traditional religious view of the world
• Pemulwuy fought against the British as soon as they came because of the nature and behaviour they displayed