One of the major challenges that James Watts steam engine helped with was "<span>A. Fueling factories using something other than wood</span>" since this greatly revolutionized production productivity.
In the west, the definining feature of the modern era is the development of all forces of modernity, i.e., science, reason, democracy, liberty and equality. Medieval is in fact a term that is used to describe a societal period that lacked all these features.