The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment, was an intellectual and philosophical movement, which includes ideas such as liberty, free trade, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state, that dominated in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Why only in Europe, and North America, and why not the rest of the world?

The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment, was an intellectual and philosophical movement, which includes ideas such as liberty, free trade, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state, that dominated in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Why only in Europe, and North America, and why not the rest of the world?