Petrarch's letter MOST LIKELY reflects the ideals of humanism.
Explanation:
Petrarch was a poet and scholar who pave the way of the Renaissance with his humanistic philosophy. He is also regarded as one of the father of contemporary Italian.
As a priest Petrarch was eligible for ecclesial posts, which promoted his belief in antiquity. He has also been able to seek lost classical texts as a diplomatic ambassador to the vatican. Petrarch gathered a good collection of such texts during his lives, which he then legacy to Venice in return for a house to shelter the pestilence.
Petrarch continued to admire the past and protest against shortcomings of his own day as he learned as much about the high middle ages. While Petrarch believed he existed "in varying and confounding winds," he hoped that civilization would again reach the heights of past achievements. His philosophy became recognized as humanism and formed a link between the Medieval period and the Renaissance.
The colonists originally were inspired by the Romans who had a direct democracy. The colonists wanted to change this up a little. (Due to the inconvenience of a direct democracy and other factors) Which now makes America a representative democracy.
Answer:
B. Diminishing returns
Explanation:
As the proportion of one factor in a combination of factors is increased, with sufficient investment, each initiative will reach a point where no further improvement is possible, first the marginal and then the average product of that factor will diminish, therefore the investments create no additional returns.