... universal rights through the use of reason and logic that caused people to examine the intelligence of the social hierarchy traditional, and challenging traditional authority figures, such as King of France. " The Enlightenment and religion is so important to argued that an exaggeration of the role of deism has led to a lack of commitment to traditional religious forces for change (Black ... was the general character of intellectual phenomenon we call the Enlightenment? According to Barnett, also states that "its aim has been to begin to illustrate the problems inherent in the history o...

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... A. G. Hopkins' four periods of globalisation, it is evident that globalisation has occurred prior to 1500, evolving over the different periods and effectively shaping each into fundamental stages of history through economic innovation. Despite Hopkins' classification, each period is not fixed, but overlaps and interacts with the others , the stages ranging from Archaic, Early Modern, Modern and Post ... empires to nation states with respective national identities and hardened geographic boundaries. Ideals of nationalism and representative government spread throughout Europe, with the firs...

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