A civil war...between the Greeks :)
The enlightenment sparked ideas of natural rights and freedoms, when the British government had colonized the americas, there were no rights granted. The people educated in the enlightenment know thinkers like John Locke with his idea that everyone is born with rights, and resize they are not receiving these.
Georges lemaitre came up with the big bang theory, and is a belief that the planet earth and the rest of the solar system came a bout with one loud bang.
D. There was a growing division between the British and the colonists