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[https://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html by Owen Jarus 12/9/19 LIVESCIENCE] | [https://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html by Owen Jarus 12/9/19 LIVESCIENCE] | ||
While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred, it was also a time when millions of people were enslaved and transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. | While the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries was a time when science blossomed and revolutions in the United States and France occurred, it was also a time when millions of people were enslaved and transported from Africa to the Western Hemisphere. | ||
=====Enlightenment Ideas Lead to Revolutions===== | |||
[https://www.studentsofhistory.com/enlightenment-ideas-lead-to-revolutions by Students of History] | |||
The Enlightenment era ushered in a series of sweeping changes in both Europe and the English Colonies in America. Both the American and French Revolutions were greatly influenced by ideas that came from the Enlightenment period. | |||
