European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” simply the Enlightenment.
D. a period of scientific and philosophical development
We can say that the consequence of the Age of Enlighenment were the French Revolution and the American Revolution , because people were moved by the idea of a society as a social contract between government and governed. Ideas that were developed by Montesquie in the Age of Enlightenment.