The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas immensely changed the world. It was the period along with the Scientific Revolution that opened up the world to a new way of thinking. Religion in Europe, especially in Rome, was sacred. Anyone who dared to go against the beliefs of the Church faced great consequences/punishments. The period of Enlightenment allowed people to start developing independent theories in science, math, philosophy etc. This bridge of new beliefs started to bring up the notion of equality between races and genders. On page 7 of the reading, it talks of the opportunities for men in the privileged classes which usually meant white men. These opportunities were not given to lower class men usually meaning colored men. It also discusses the fact that even women in privileged classes didn’t have the same opportunities as men in privileged classes. The increased push of independent theories during the period of Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas started sprouting ideas of women being able to hold their own and not only men of privileged classes should be educated. The Enlightenment affected society socially because it started to become less and less of a patriarchy with women wanting to be independent and being treated with the same respect as men. Society started to change its moral conduct in aspects involving the two genders. These social changes have slowly been appearing, but even now society is still not completely equal between all. There is still much fear of the unknown bestowing from the beginning of the Enlightenment period, where people didn’t want to venture into independent theories from theories already established, but the world is still changing as we can clearly tell from Trump and the current issues with his presidency.