WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment, a philosophical movement that dominated in Europe during the 18th century, was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

Detailed explanation-4: -European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment.