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What was the enlightenment period?

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The Enlightenment helped combat the excesses of the church, establish science as a source of knowledge, and defend human rights against tyranny. It also gave us modern schooling, medicine, republics, representative democracy, and much more.Explanation:

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the enlightenment period was when many people have many idea about  in science, philosophy, society and  politics 
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