Explain how Enlightenment ideas influenced the rule of monarchies (kings, queens, emperors, etc).

This furthered the power of a monarch because it ensured that the king or queen did not get their power from the people, and therefore the people had not control or say over the monarchs rule. The Enlightenment and its ideals of liberty greatly impacted the ability of absolute monarchs to continue to rule as they had.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.