Studying hominids involves a fourth type of detective, paleoanthropologists. Paleoanthropologists specialize in studying the development and culture of the earliest hominids. (Paleo means âancient. â)
The Enlightenment (the age of Enlightenment) is period in Europe characterized with big intellectual and philosophical movement. The another name that describes this period is the Age of reason. The ideas in the age of reason were focused on like progress, tolerance, liberty, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
The Enlightenment. The Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason, was a confluence of ideas and activities that took place throughout the eighteenth century in Western Europe, England, and the American colonies.he principles set forth during the Enlightenment had consequences in the near term that very few anticipated, and these would spell the end of the so-called Age of Reason. If there is a historical moment that can be said to mark the beginning of the end of the Enlightenment, then that moment was the French Revolution.