This passage discusses ideals most directly associated with the (1) Golden Age of Islam (2) Reign of Charlemagne (3) Reformation (4) Enlightenment
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. ...The document so frantically cobbled together was stunning in its sweep and simplicity. Never
once mentioning king, nobility, or church, it declared the “natural, inalienable and sacred rights
of man” to be the foundation of any and all government. It assigned sovereignty to the nation,
not the king, and pronounced everyone equal before the law, thus opening positions to talent and
merit and implicitly eliminating all privilege based on birth. More striking than any particular
guarantee, however, was the universality of the claims made. References to “men,” “man,” “every
man,” “all men,” “all citizens,” “each citizen,” “society,” and “every society” dwarfed the single
reference to the French people....
— Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History, W. W. Norton & Company
This passage discusses ideals most directly associated with the
(1) Golden Age of Islam (2) Reign of Charlemagne
(3) Reformation (4) Enlightenment
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