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In that historical period, people began to think independently of religious authority. Science, politics, and philosophy all develped in new directions which had previously been blocked by religion.
The Netherlands began to colonize Indonesia in the early seventeenth century.
The eighteenth amendment officially started the Prohibition Era, declaring alcohol illegal.
Yes the American Novel did begin to develop in the eighteenth century.
The Age of Reason is also called the Age of Enlightenment, and inspired intellectual thought during the seventeenth, and eighteenth century. For the first time, issues were looked at and deciphered by reason, with respect to the human mind. During the age of reason, several absolute rulers became admirers of the Enlightenment theories, and instituted reforms to that way of thinking. It also inspired the American patriot intellectuals who used the theories and ideals to rebel and establish a new government.
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The eighteenth amendment to the U.S Constitution began the prohibition of alcohol. This amendment was repealed by the twenty-first.
Naturopathy began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the industrial revolution forced many people into unhealthy lifestyles, and the European custom of "taking the cure" at natural spas became popular.
began the process of modernization after a long period of isolationism
Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently.
People have always seen a connection to diet and disease, and many therapies are built around special diets. Naturopathy began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the industrial revolution brought about unhealthy lifestyles.