Why was empiricism common in Great Britain and rationalism in the continent?

[noi_avorrit]

Empiricism states that ideas, specially knowledge derive from sensory experience, while rationalism states that ideas have an intrinsically logical structure, like the principles of mathematics as being fundamentally true.

Some empiricist philosophers are Francis Bacon (As far as I'm aware), John Locke and David Hume, all british.

Some rationalist philosophers René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza (as far as I'm aware too) and Gottfried Leibniz, all from continental europe.

I wonder what created this apparent division in terms of philosophy between Great Britain and the continent amid the Early Modern Era.