The correct answer is <span>increased due to decreasing tax rates for the wealthy and stagnating salaries for the middle class
Most of the wages have only slightly increased while the earnings and wealth of the upper class and the big elites had increased drastically because of many tax cuts. People believed that through tax cuts the people would get more money because the companies could give them higher salaries, but it backfired as big companies hoarded extra money.</span>
<span>The Enlightenment, sometimes called the 'Age of Enlightenment', was a late 17th- and 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism. The Enlightenment presented a challenge to traditional religious views. Enlightenment thinkers were the liberals of their day.</span>
Buddhism actually originated in India so it goes against something like Doisom in china + the religion side of it is very different yet share some traits like meditation.
It impacted them both in the way that they got things they didnt have before and it impacted the new world as it brought diseases they couldnt cure.