Question

What are the effects of the Enlightenment?
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(Name three, please)

Answer 1

Three effects of the Enlightenment:

1. Creation and consolidation of nation-states
2. The expansion of civil rights, and
3. the reduction of the influence of hierarchical institutions such as the nobility and the church.

Answer 2

The correct answer is three effects of Enlightenment:

The Enlightenment or the Age of the Reason,

1.- Generated new ideas of liberty.

2.- Changes in the old dogmatic points of view of religion. Science as the new way to explain things

3.- Political and social reforms.

The Enlightenment created new ideas of liberty and did not support slavery. The new ideas came from the notion that humans were intelligent beings, capable to use reason in a more constructive way. The Enlightenment modified the old dogmas of religion and made possible new considerations about the order of the world. Sciencie gained a more promoinent role in explaining the nature of things. On the political side, the Enlightenment limited the power of the King and the monarchies, opening the idea idea of people having the right to decide their government.