Context: By the end of the early modern period, the structure and orientation of higher education had changed in ways that are eminently recognizable for the modern context. Aristotle was no longer a force providing the epistemological and methodological focus for universities and a more mechanistic orientation was emerging. The hierarchical place of theological knowledge had for the most part been displaced and the humanities had become a fixture, and a new openness was beginning to take hold in the construction and dissemination of knowledge that were to become imperative for the formation of the modern state.

Question: At the end of what period would universities become alike to contemporary universities?
Answer: the end of the early modern period

Question: What type of focus did universities have at the end of the early modern period?
Answer: mechanistic

Question: What replaced theological studies in universities at the completion of the early modern period?
Answer: humanities

Question: The change in universities towards the completion of the early modern period is credited with the formation of what entity?
Answer: the modern state

Question: The study of the humanities at the end of the early modern period replaced the study of the work of what individual?
Answer: Aristotle

Question: At the end of what period would universities become a fixture?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What type of focus did universities have at the end of the modern state?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What replaced theological studies in universities at the completion of the modern state?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The change in universities towards the completion of the modern period is credited with the formation of what entity?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: The study of the humanities at the end of the modern state replaced the work of what individual?
Answer: Unanswerable