It was the European era of the 18th century, ideas were flowing and intellectuals were making a name for themselves among academics. Many well-educated and cultured members of humanity were digging deeper into their brains to explain everything that is happening on Earth and beyond. Philosophers Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Cesare Beccaria, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke contributed to the Age of Enlightenment by educating the people of Western Europe on the ideas of logic and philosophy to help them explain the world around them. The philosophers of this era took a risk by bringing ideas to society that did not coincide with the government or the church. Denis Diderot was arrested for publishing his belief that God had no place in science and philosophy (Sic 29). At the time, rebels against the law could be sentenced to death or prison for heresy or treason. Leaders didn't like the idea of ​​intelligent citizens having greater influence than they did. Voltaire supported the distinction between philosophy and science, particularly in public campaigns directed against superstitious people of the time (Sica 124). He believed that reason and facts about Earth were in no way related. Voltaire created the idea of ​​deism, according to which the universe is a clock and God is a clockmaker. The stubborn and rebellious ideas of the Enlightenment sparked the French Revolution (Baker 27). Enlightenment thinkers promoted personal thinking and natural law. The documents and laws present in the French Revolution were all the result of enlightened thought. The French Enlightenment philosophers contributed significantly to new ideas that gave rise to a new model of thought. Contrary to popular belief, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva, Switzerland despite...... middle of paper..... .sion and new wave thinking comes from past events that took place in the century of Enlightenment. The vital forces that contributed to the founding of the United States, including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were greatly changed and so were the revolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment for their countries (Sica 178). Both men had received a classical education in crucial subjects such as mathematics, science, philosophy and history. Jefferson implicitly emphasized the importance of making successful ideas of the past come to fruition in his fledgling and growing country. Without the Enlightenment, one can only conceptualize the distinctive diversity of the world today (Sica 191). Valuable guarantees of human and natural rights, declarations of liberty and rights to freedom of speech, religion and print media are all rooted in America and born from the revolutionary ideas of the Enlightenment..