EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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The Industrial Revolution
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The Enlightenment
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The French and Indian War
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The Middle Ages
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment – the great ‘Age of Reason’ – is defined as the period of rigorous scientific, political and philosophical discourse that characterised European society during the ‘long’ 18th century: from the late 17th century to the ending of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment, like the Scientific Revolution, began in Europe. Taking place during the 17th and 18th centuries, this intellectual movement synthesized ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity into a worldview that celebrated reason.
Detailed explanation-3: -To Enlightenment thinkers, science was much more than a set of topics to be studied. It represented the unshakeable triumph of the empirical method, the crucial testing of hypotheses against evidence, that could be applicable to all aspects of human enquiry, including questions of morality and religion.
Detailed explanation-4: -(1660-1788)-This period goes by the names “the Enlightenment, ” “the Age of Reason, ” and “the Neo-Classical Age.”-There was a great turning away from religion as primary way of life.