Blog post 3: What I learned on the Illuminati

The Illuminati was an 18th-century secret society made up of numerous influential intellectuals and freethinkers of the time. The Illuminati grew quickly, gaining some 2,000 members from countries throughout Europe, including France, Poland, Hungary and Italy. They sought to “enlighten” people and free them from prejudices and superstitions. The Illuminati opposed churches control over since and supported women’s education and treated them as equals. The Illuminati was created by Adam Weishaupt in 1776 who was the chairman of canon law and later the dean of the faculty of law at the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria. I chose the Illuminati as my topic because i already knew about them but didn’t know what they did.