Enlightenment is when you are learning or understanding. Ignorance (the opposite) is when you have a lack of knowledge and understanding. Prejudice and superstition sprout from ignorance.
Enlightenment is freedom from ignorance.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) performed an act of insurrection when she refused to stand up and give her bus seat, located the bus section that was supposed to be for black passengers, to a white woman after the bus driver requested her to do so because the white section of the vehicle was already full. This happened in Montgomery in 1955. She was arrested for violating the segregation laws from Alabama.
Her action and subsequent arrest triggered the start of the Montgomery Bus Boyycott, as a social protest within Civil Rights Movement that lasted from 1955 to 1956 and aimed to end segregation in US public facilities.
The main <span>connection between the Great Wall and the Mongols was that the Great Wall was erected by the Chinese in an attempt to keep the Mongols out of China (this largely failed). </span>
The good thing was the the economy of Egypt was better thanks to the British. They also learned the English language. There was however a strong Arabic oppositon, which didn't like the European ruling (Christians settelting in Egypt). This led to several armed conflicts. British occupation until 1922 when Egypt declared its independence.
