Answer:
One of the defining characteristic of modern era was the' spread on enlighten ideas slowed the spread of democracy worldwide'.
Explanation:
- The modern era is a 'period of world history' which extends from 1500-1950.
- Some of the dominant characteristic of modern era are enlightenment, broadcast media, industrialization, pollution, great divergence, colonialism, communism, atomic age, modernism, automobiles, consumerism, competition, monopolies, etc.
- Enlighten was an 'explosion of popular ideas' occurred in the '18th century' which might define the 'modern age'.
- These served to undermine the existing order with ideas of liberty, skeptism, materialism, toleration, progress, rationalism, constitutional government, fraternity, and separation of state and church.