[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":46},["ShallowReactive",2],{"question:what-was-the-enlightenment-of-the-1700s":3},{"question":4},{"id":5,"slug":6,"format":7,"answers":8,"chapter":13,"correct":17,"related":19,"question":38,"references":39,"reviewedAt":44,"explanation":45},"uk-uc-022","what-was-the-enlightenment-of-the-1700s","choice",[9,10,11,12],"A time of new ideas in science, philosophy and politics","A war between England and Scotland","A new Church set up by the king","A period when trade with Europe stopped",{"id":14,"title":15,"summary":16},"history","History","From the first settlers to the modern state: kings, queens, wars and reforms.",[18],0,[20,23,26,29,32,35],{"slug":21,"question":22},"which-enlightenment-idea-is-still-a-basic-principle-of-life-in-the-uk","Which Enlightenment idea is still a basic principle of life in the UK today?",{"slug":24,"question":25},"which-scottish-thinker-wrote-the-wealth-of-nations-1776-a-book-that","Which Scottish thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776), a book that started modern economics?",{"slug":27,"question":28},"before-the-1700s-most-people-in-britain-worked-on-farms-where-did-more","Before the 1700s, most people in Britain worked on farms. Where did more and more people work during the 1700s and 1800s?",{"slug":30,"question":31},"true-or-false-britain-was-the-first-country-to-industrialise-on-a-large","Britain was the first country to industrialise on a large scale.",{"slug":33,"question":34},"the-bessemer-process-invented-in-the-1850s-made-it-cheap-to-produce","The Bessemer process, invented in the 1850s, made it cheap to produce large amounts of which material?",{"slug":36,"question":37},"what-is-richard-arkwright-remembered","What is Richard Arkwright remembered for?","What was the Enlightenment of the 1700s?",[40],{"url":41,"kind":42,"title":43},"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FScottish_Enlightenment","wikipedia","Wikipedia: Scottish Enlightenment","2026-11-07T23:18:17.820361+00:00","Scotland had a strong part in it. Thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith worked in this period, and James Watt improved the steam engine.",1794177766299]