Now the knowledge about historical events is almost automatically updated and hierarchically set in the Internet. All the new information we have to find in one place. We have many sources of information that describe one event from different angles. Finally, the technology allows to play back events, e.g. battles, which allows to better understand the context.
C. people began to demand basic rights from the government
The Enlightenment was all about natural rights.
It was John D. Rockefeller
The ideas of philosophers who were active during the Enlightenment period were that (2) faith in human reason was something they were ready to acknowledge.
This period itself was devoting a lot of thought and time into the idea of human rationalism, human advancement, science, and technology (all of these in their limited form at their time, as we're talking a few centuries in the past).
The philosophers that are considered to be from this period were Benjamin Franklin, Descartes, Diderot, etc.
