Topic questions:1. Why is the 18th century called the Age of Enlightenment?The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason.(1)The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance in the 15th & 16th centuries.(2) Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modem philosophical and artistic ideas.