The poor and or homeless population because they were around rats the most and rats carried it.
Edmund Burke was one of the first to suggest that the philosophers of the French Enlightenment were somehow responsible for the French Revolution, and his argument was taken up, and elaborated on, by many historians, including Tocqueville and Lord Acton. The philosophes undoubtedly provided the ideas.
The answer is A. The Ottoman and Mughal Empires were primarily Sunni while the Safavid was Shia.