WORLD HISTORY

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What was the Enlightenment?
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The Enlightenment was a movement that applied scientific reasoning to better understand the world, especially human society and relations.
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The Enlightenment was a religious revival that applied scientific reasoning to better understand the world, especially human society and relations.
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The Enlightenment was a movement that applied scientific reasoning to better understand the country, especially human society and relations.
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The Enlightenment was a movement that applied mathematical reasoning to better understand the world, especially human society and relations.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Enlightenment’s leaders believed that by using scientific methods, they could explain the laws of society and human nature. It was an optimistic creed-armed with the proper methods of discovering the laws of human nature, enlightened thinkers were convinced they could solve all problems.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summary point: Enlightenment thinkers placed particular emphasis on empirical knowledge and what they described as scientific method: that is, knowledge verifiable by reference to experiment, experience or first-hand observation. Empiricism was applied to every aspect of human thought and activity.

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