The era of Enlightenment

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THE  ERA  OF  ENLIGHTENMENT

        Enlightenment.  It  comes  from  the  root  word,  enlighten  which  is  defined  as  having  greater  knowledge  or  understanding.  The  era  that  followed  after  Reformation  Era,  I  believe  was  named  Enlightenment  due  to  the  fact that  the  society  during  that  era  became  more  knowledgeable  as  they  possessed  somewhat  of  a  desire  to  learn  and  seek  for  information.  The  people  slowly  learnt  modernism  which  means  a  set  of  ideas  that  was  built  during  the  Enlightenment.

        From  Reformation,  the  learned  ones  of  the  society  had  gained  knowledge  through  the  wonders  of  science  and  through  the  observation  and  information  of  science,  the  idea  of  technology  was  born.  It  was  in  the  Enlightenment  Era  where  technology  had  developed,  for  example  the  people  of  that  time  had  learnt  how  to  navigate  themselves.  From  there,  they  traveled  across  the  oceans  to  obtain  more  knowledge.  They  began  to  build  locomotives  and  ships  to  transport  themselves  to  places  where  they  could  acquire  knowledge  as  well  as  for  the  benefit  of  their  economy.  From  the  technological  advancement,  it  helped  the  society  understand  the  concept  of  cause  and  effect  or  more  known  as  causality.  

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Science  and  technology  gave  the  society  the  idea  that  everything  has  a  cause  of  being  the  way  it  was  which  later  lead  to  the  effect  as  the  consequence.  It  had  triggered  them  to  believe  that  there  was  a  reason  to  everything,  for  example,  the  reason  to  why  trees  are  planted  is  due  to  the  fact  that  it  is  the  source  of  oxygen  and  in  order  to  live,  human  breath  in  the  oxygen.  Their  belief  was  similar  to  the  saying  that  everything  happens  for  a  reason.  The  society  knew  that  the  world  worked  on  set  of  natural  laws.  With  reason, ...

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