what has the enlightenment period go to do with political ideologies?

Answer 1

The main modern ideologies in the European and American world developed during the Enlightenment. For instance, the modern concept of democracy developed through the work of Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau; the idea of cosmopolitanism and international cooperation developed through Kant and later Hegel and Fichte; classical liberalism began with Locke and reached fullest expression in John Stuart Mill; classical conservatism was articulated by Edmund Burke. Even feminism began at the end of this period, with people like Wollstonecraft and de Gouges.

Answer 2

Everything - that is the time when many modern political ideologies emerged, from Hobbes to Locke.