Option: help spread recognition of the idea that the Americas were new continents.
Explanation:
Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer, navigator, and an Italian Merchant who explored the New World. It was his name taken to name the continent as America and its people by Americans. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in voyages, first on the support of Spain and then from Portugal. On his third voyage to the New World, he found South America and believed to have discovered a new continent. His discovery led to spread the idea that America's were part of new continents.
This quote was stated by Baron de Montesquieu, a french philosopher. Montesquieu strongly opposed the aristocracy prevalent in France and condemned the corrupt practices conducted by them.
His contributions to political theory are still revered and studied by many scholars even today. He advocated natural human rights and was an eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment Period.
Montesquieu argued that when legislative and executive powers are given to the same person, he/she may become corrupt and tyrannical.
In this way, the common people would lose their basic rights and freedom because higher individuals with too much power become despotic and dictatorial.
