Back in the days, superstition and spiritual damnation were the main influences of everyday life. Ignorance and corruption ruled the political and religious worlds. Incompetent nobilities who were blinded by greed and gluttony ruled many kingdoms of the known world. Religion was hypocritical. Then in the eighteenth century came the Age of Enlightenment. This brought a better way of thinking to people by observation and experimentation. People began to figure out ignorance was bad