I would say A.) They were more interested in exploring the world around them.
Descartes has a reasoning and rationality which is very similar to the scientific approach. Scholarship used to be based on faith, meaning that facts should not be questioned, especially past arguments. Descartes however started analyzing past works and using reason to improve and absorb the knowledge, checking the fact's veracity. His attempts consisted of trial and error and he found out that a lot of "facts" he was thought were wrong. This process and mindset are the foundation of the scientific method.
I believe it was the chinese
1.
Battle of Bunker Hill - was clashed on June 17,
1775, through the Siege of Boston in the early phases of the American
Revolutionary War.
2.
Ethan Allen - He is best known for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early
in the American Revolutionary War.
3. Hessians
- They were the 18th century German auxiliaries.
4.
Thomas
Paine – He made the pamphlet, Common Sense
5.
Thomas Jefferson – He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United
States and the major writer of the Declaration of Independence.
6.
George Washington – He was commissioned as the
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775.
7.
Nathan Hale – He was an American soldier and infiltrator
for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
8.
Benedict Arnold – He was a general throughout
the American Revolutionary War.
9.
John Paul Jones – He was the United States'
first famous naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.
10.
George Rogers Clark – During the American
Revolutionary War, he became the highest position in the American military
officer on the northwestern border.