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The Enlightenment grew out of an earlier movement that saw the universe as orderly and:Read the answer and worked solution →Historians usually place the birthplace of the Enlightenment in:Read the answer and worked solution →Much of the science that fed Enlightenment thought was built on traditions from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rights possessed by all human beings, such as life and liberty, are called:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Enlightenment grew out of an earlier movement that saw the universe as orderly and:

  1. Rational
  2. Reversed
  3. Relative
  4. Reduced
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Correct answer: A. Rational

1. The Scientific Revolution came first. 2. It held that nature followed discoverable laws. 3. So the universe was seen as orderly and rational. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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Historians usually place the birthplace of the Enlightenment in:

  1. Western Estonia
  2. Western Europe
  3. Western Egypt
  4. Western Ecuador
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Correct answer: B. Western Europe

1. Its inspirations came from around the world. 2. Its intellectual centre, however, was one region. 3. That region is western Europe. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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Much of the science that fed Enlightenment thought was built on traditions from the:

  1. Islamic world
  2. Iberian world
  3. Icelandic world
  4. Ionian world
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Correct answer: A. Islamic world

1. Arabic, Indian and Persian treatises shaped European learning. 2. They covered mathematics, medicine and astronomy. 3. That inheritance came from the Islamic world. _Source: OpenStax World History Volume 2, Chapter 7, Revolutions in Europe and North America._

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