Answer: c
Explanation: I just took it
Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense made the colonist realised that these rights were something that they wanted and it made them begin to stand up for themselves since they saw that they way they were being treated wrongly and that its a better way to live life.
The Age of Exploration was the discovery of the East by the Europeans. This was the start of trade by the Europeans which eventually led to colonization. The two ways in which the technological innovations lead to the age of exploration were; (i) They allowed sailors to go on longer voyages