Step 1 : Introduction to the question "1. The Enlightenment would generally be considered what type of movement?"
...1. political 2. intellectual 3. economic 4. geographic Also known as the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment was centered in France during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Often referred to as an "intellectual movement," the Enlightenment featured such well-known thinkers as John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and Rene Descartes.