The Enlightenment The enlightenment period was a period best defined as the reasoning or rationalization of what was already known. No longer were people relating things that happened to them as a work of God, instead, they started to think logically, finding other possible explanations for what had happened. During this time, many revolutions were made in science, philosophy, in society and even politics. These revolutions spread all over Europe, replacing medieval thoughts, and eventually, enlightened thinkers were found all over the world. Enlightened thoughts became popular as a result of philosophers sharing their ideas with one another, allowing the chain of enlightenment to gain a new link with each new thought. Each link can be defined as a social institution for example education, the government system, healthcare and the list continues. Analysing certain countries, in scope, first world countries such as Japan, Australia and the entirety of Western Europe and North America, obvious factors of enlightenment present themselves. Thus the reason why these countries are classified as first world countries. They are considered the world leaders because they are considered the more developed, capitalist, industrial countries in the world. But what about the other countries that don’t fall under the category of First World? Are they not considered to be enlightened? Much of the world’s attention usually lie on the more developed countries of the world. Neglecting the others, commonly the third world countries. A third world country as defined in an Oxford dictionary is, the poorest and underdeveloped countries, called third because they are not considered to be politically connected with USA and its allies (the First World) or with Communist countries led by Russia ( the Second World). Making the connection that third world countries didn’t receive the