A flamingo that never learned to stand on one leg, that spent most of its time in the water with both legs immersed, would lose somewhere around 40-70% more body heat than a flamingo that did learn this behavior.
The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by an opposing intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
Enlightenment And Economics. The Enlightenment is the name given to the intellectual movement that was. centered in the Western World, mainly Europe, during the 18th century. The rise. of modern science greatly influenced the enlightenment. It was also the. aftermath of the long religious conflict that followed the Reformation.