1st 3 answers are correct if you can chose multiple :)
The Age of Enlightenment promoted a confidence in reason or intellectual enquiry to bring greater happiness and progress to humanity; a belief that all aspects of the human and natural worlds are susceptible of rational explanation; and the desire to battle against ignorance, dogma, superstition, injustice and oppression.
Direct democracy is when everyone in a country votes on something. People's rights might be denied because it would be a tyrannical rule of the majority. For example, there's only 15% African-Americans in the US. If the 85% Caucasian population decided to vote something that was against the rights of the African-Americans, they wouldn't be able to oppose this because they would be a minority.
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Colonial powers justify their conquest by asserting that they had a legal in religious obligation to take over the land and culture of indigenous people.
The benifits of colonial rule DOES NOT justify the traumatic experience that the indigenous people experienced.
No, because establishing settlements exploding resources needed to be in consult or in treaty with the indigenous people of that country.
