It was the late 17th Century, in France where the philosophes began to

Locke, along with Rousseau and Montesquieu, changed the politics of the time. Their new ideas created the founding of new schools by the professionals who accepted their ideas. The old schools would not comply to their needs. The new schools were more efficient because the information was more accurate and more relative to what society was going through at the present time. From these new schools of thought emerged the world’s first extensive dictionary and encyclopedia. There were condensed versions of these texts in earlier times, but these individuals completed the books with their philosophies. Locke believed in the constitutional government which was ruled by the people, limiting absolute power. Rousseu supported the Greek style city-state government, where the people make the laws. Montesquieu came up with the notion of the present day, American republic and capitalism. From this era of science and thought, the new ideas gave a dream of power that mechanical knowledge offered both governments and early promoters of industry. Monarchs and statesmen embraced these new philosophies and created different regimes and republics all over the world. This era created the democratic revolution. These individuals and their thoughts created new academies, where new intellectuals were educated to rule the respective areas for the future. The thing about these new ideologies was that they created bad tactics for the future. These new ideologies were twisted a little and in emergence came war games and tactics of the modern era. Revolutions occurred in many places and new rulers changed the rules of the race of life. The world was now seeing a battle for the survival of the fittest.

Before the Enlightenment people were not very literate or educated. They believed everything the aristocrats told tell them. Once the Enlightenment came, it brought with it the printing press. The printing press gave people the materials they needed to transform themselves into intellects and understand the truths of the their existence. The printing press gave answers to peoples’ questions they had about their society. Even though the printing press was heavily regulated in most of Europe, underground printers and smugglers from liberated England brought the scientific books of the Age of Reason. The printing press allowed the works of all the great thinkers to come to life and let the people overthrow the aristocrats mentally and physically in some cases. This was another future influence from this era. With all of the new information flying around from the likes of Newton and physics; Locke and his politics; and Copernicus and his math and astronomy, people could find answers for themselves. This scared the living crap out the aristocrats because they knew that the people would force new ideologies to rule their respective regions.

The biggest and most influential ideologies to hit the scene of the Enlightenment, were Copernicus, Newton, Locke, and Descartes. These individuals made past ideas and made them concrete. Copernicus completely devastated the schools’ teachings of the universe. It was taught that the universe revolved around the earth and that man was the lord of nature. Then, in stepped Copernicus to reveal that the earth was just a spec of the univer

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