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Answer:</h2><h2><u>Enlightenment</u> thinkers wanted to examine human life in the light of reason. Rational understanding, they felt, would lead to great progress in government and society. These thinkers believed they were making a major break with the past. Like all people, however, they were influenced by what had come before them.</h2>
Well when scientists wish to learn something, they use the scientific method. The first step is to observe something/could be a problem. Then ask a question about it. Form a hypothesis, or a possible answer to that question. These are the first steps.
Further steps include setting up an experiment and results, etc, but I think you know the rest! Hope this helps!
C. A government urges the country's factories to support a war effort and drafts citizens into the army.
John Stuart mill believed in checks and balances