Under the Articles of Confederation, the government was a unicameral (one house) legislature. Delegates to Congress were appointed by the state legislatures, and each state had one vote.
It limited the power of the king
That should be the scientific revolution. That's when people started abandoning the ideas that the church presented and they started focusing on science. It was then discovered that Earth is not in the center but rather goes around the Sun, and Newton made his laws and science and education flourished during that period.
