WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Enlightenment thinkers began to ____
A
challenge long-held ideas about when societies should be managed.
B
challenge new ideas about how societies should be managed.
C
challenge long-held ideas about how societies should be managed.
D
challenge long-held ideas about how countries should be managed.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy, and much more. So how did one movement inspire so much change?

Detailed explanation-2: -Enlightenment thinkers and writers challenged existing knowledge and assumptions, seeking new information and a better understanding of humanity and the natural world.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”-life, liberty, and property.

Detailed explanation-4: -Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness. A brief treatment of the Enlightenment follows.

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