WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract between the government and the governed stemmed from the Enlightenment as well.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main cause of the French Revolution was the despotic rule of Louis XVI, division of French society, rising prices, inspiration of the philosophers, role of middle class.

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

Detailed explanation-5: -A variety of 19th century movements including liberalism, communism, and neoclassicism trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment. 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.