The Scientific Revolution marked the emerge of modern science towards the end of the Renaissance through the end of the 18th century, influencing the Enlightenment.
With its advances in the fields of astronomy, chemistry, biology, mathematics and physics, the Scientific Revolution put doubt in many of the Church's statements. This is why most Europeans feared and rejected the Revolution, as it posed a threat to what they believed in.
Even when most of the population refused to accept the changes in their cosmovision at the beginning, modern science made its way through society and started to enlighten the ones that were more open to it.
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D. To use political prisoners to improve Soviet infrastructure
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B: Both empires sought to project power as a mean of expanding their territories.
Explanation:
We can eliminate A as the passage mentions nothing about rebellion.
B is correct, by elimination of other options and I got it right on edge.
We can eliminate C as it does not mention a comparison between the two nations, thus we can not decide who had more political power.
D is wrong because the passage mentions the Songhay extracting wealth, but option D places wealth extraction on the Mughals.
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