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what revolution is this There were many causes of the Enlightenment. However, a particular revolution played an important role in its development. This revolution was a result of discoveries made by scientists such as Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei. They dug deep into the realms of science to discover new laws of physics and decipher the mysteries of the universe. This revolution refuted the claims of the Catholic Church about the position of Earth in the solar system.

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The correct answer is: "the scientific revolution"

The Enlightenment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau. introduced ideas that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime. They promoted reason and the scientific method over religious dogmatism and superstititions.

The main principles developed were the following: definition of bills of citizens' rights, social contract (citizens electing political representatives to create goverments through suffrage, in opposition to the prevailing absolute monarchies whose power was supposed to arise from God's will), and the division of the powers of the state in order to avoid excessive power accumulation in certain sectors, and risks of authoritarism.

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That should be the scientific revolution. That's when people started abandoning the ideas that the church presented and they started focusing on science. It was then discovered that Earth is not in the center but rather goes around the Sun, and Newton made his laws and science and education flourished during that period.
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