The great changes in thought that inspired revolutions not only in politics and art but in other fields, such as science, culture, economy and society, were the deepening human knowledge. This as such could only be achieved with the Enlightenment. With this movement, the aim was to reduce the levels of ignorance to achieve a more intellectual world and in better conditions. So much was the welcome and the achievement of great changes in the thought that this movement expanded towards the highest spheres of society.
Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe—especially in the troubled Balkan region of southeast Europe—for years before World War I actually broke out.
