WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Explain how thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment challenged the established social order.
A
by calling for an end to government
B
by denying the existence of heaven
C
by supporting peasant rebellions
D
by calling for a society based on reason.
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: -What were the most important ideas of the Enlightenment? It was thought during the Enlightenment that human reasoning could discover truths about the world, religion, and politics and could be used to improve the lives of humankind.

Detailed explanation-3: -The central doctrines of the Enlightenment were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Church. The concepts of utility and sociability were also crucial in the dissemination of information that would better society as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Enlightenment brought political modernization to the west, in terms of focusing on democratic values and institutions and the creation of modern, liberal democracies. Enlightenment thinkers sought to curtail the political power of organized religion, and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war.

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