The Modern Age began with the fall of the Roman Empire on the East or Byzantine that was under the power of the Turks during the year 1453 AD and ended with the beginning of the French Revolution in the year 1789 AD
During this time, the European continent underwent great changes due to the conquerors of the region, who emigrated to the American continent in order to conquer new frontiers. This conquest immersed the American population in acculturation (a social process that implies the loss of their own culture to acquire a new one), by depriving them of their language, customs, religion, possessions and in the most extreme cases, their lives., since they suffered many diseases brought by European immigrants, at the same time that they were exploited by them, which greatly weakened the American aborigines, leading them to death.
On the other hand, according to historians, not all the consequences generated by the Modern Age were negative, since in parallel, while the American aboriginal societies were in decline, the discovery of the new continent (the most relevant event of this time) drove the Europeans, dedicated to commercial activity, to bring urban life to the continent.
The rich, inhabitants of the towns or cities, formed a new social class, increasingly economically rich, which would enable them in the middle of the 18th century with technological success, to become models of factories and store profits, at the expense of working under conditions denigrating, of its workers. The political regime of the Modern Age was characterized by rescuing the king his absolute command, which he claimed was conferred on him by God, a power that he had lost in the Middle Ages, at the hands of the feudal nobles.
The Christian church, so powerful in the Middle Ages, lost in the Modern Age that enormous number of faithful, by separating into two opposite sectors: Catholics and Protestants. In the meditations, Humanism arises, placing man at the center of earthly concerns, which manifested itself in all planes of life. In artistic terms, this event was known as the Renaissance.
The Enlightenment, which emerged in the 18th century, opposed the illiteracy that the Catholic Church had imposed on the intellect even then, since man, without ceasing to suppose in God, could examine, reflect, generate and question, which was not limited to the plane religious, but also political, the Illuminists opposing the absolute power of the king, and opening the ideological path for the bourgeoisie, economic supporters of the French state, to initiate a struggle for political demands and social similarity (so that everyone would pay taxes, since that the favorite classes, nobility and clergy, were independent of it) which would trigger the French Revolution and the end of the Modern Age a.
