.In your own words, explain what the Enlightenment period was about?

Explanation:

Enlightenment, a European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that ... of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. ... Italy: The era of Enlightenment reform.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they liv

possession of power

exercising of power

class and power