53% of people live in cities and suburbs.
Meister Echkart was a German mystic, theologian,and also a philosopher who was born in the 13th century. One of the many principles that were included in his teaching is to have a detachment from all of the earthly distraction to be able to receive God's presence. This refers to the detachment or renouncing of the senses. Thus, the answer to this item is letter C.
The answer would be A. D would be close due to it's relation to early European Imperialism, but it isn't due to strictly economic motives.