The Enlightenment was the time when new ideas were being created. People began to express their ideas and wanted to change their bad living conditions as commoners. This new way of thinking, using the scientific method for reasoning, established a basis for change yet to come. People started to challenge their governments' authority. This can be seen in the French revolution. When every citizen was starving and the aristocracy was still well fed, the people rebelled against their government declaring new rights for themselves. This revolution can be seen as very shocking because of the dramatic impact it had on peoples' rights. There was a huge change in the system of law. Creating equal trials to fairly punish the guilty in accordance to how sever their crime was. The people now had rights of freedom of speech, and women were given rights equal to those of men. The new ways of thinking brought on by the Enlightenment truly changed the coarse of history.
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