HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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before the Italian Renaissance (pre-1300 C.E.)
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in prehistoric Africa (10, 000s B.C.E.)
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after the American and French Revolutions (post-1800 C.E.)
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in 17th Century Europe (1600s C.E.)
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment – the great ‘Age of Reason’ – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the ‘long’ 18th century: from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the mid-17th century, the Enlightenment traces its origins to Descartes’ Discourse on Method, published in 1637. In France, many cite the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica in 1687.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment began in western Europe in the mid-1600s and continued until the late 18th century. It was driven by scepticism about traditional ideas and beliefs, intellectual curiosity and a desire for social, political and technical progress.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
Detailed explanation-5: -Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change.