4. <span>Formal </span><u>adoption</u> of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 by <span>Continental Congress.</span>
1. A fossil named Lucy was found in East Africa it was a monkey like structure bone wise it was a skeleton type fossil.
It changed what they thought about who should govern them and it changed what they thought about the purpose of government. Before the Enlightenment, essentially everyone agreed that countries should be governed by monarchs. They believed that God had appointed certain people to rule over others
