Crossing the Silk Road, Marco Polo brought elements of Western culture to the East and Eastern culture back to the West.
Because of his exploration for trade of what is today modern China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and India, the east experienced Western culture.
Furthermore, his journeys were documented in the Book of the Marvels of the World which presented to Europeans the Asian cities and countries.
Thomas Jefferson said it I believe.
The philosophers of these enlightenment thinkers would be grouped as follows
- John Locke believed that humans have natural rights to life, liberty, and property; and, people form governments to protects these natural rights. If, however, government violates peoples natural rights, people have the right to overthrow that government.
- Baron de Montesquieu believed in the separation of government (balance of power); and the government elected by the people is the best form of government.
- Rousseau believed in in life, liberty, fraternity and a social contract would that give men real freedom in exchange for their obedience to a self-imposed law; the common good supersedes the individual, or private ambitions; all citizens should participate in government
- Hobbes believed humans are basically selfish creatures and need governments to protect them from their own selfishness and evil; thought the rule of a king was best, but believed believed a diverse group of representatives of the people would prevent a king from being cruel and unfair.
- Voltaire believed in religious tolerance
<h3>Who is an enlightenment thinker?</h3>
This is the term that is used to refer to the people that were central to the period enlightenment. They were the ones that had to do with the use and the celebration of human reason in such a way that the issues faced in the society can be resolved.
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The correct answer is (C) Thaddeus Stevens.
<h3>Who was Thaddeus Stevens.</h3>
From Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens served in the US House of Representatives.
Thaddeus Stevens was a key figure in the Republican Party's Radical Republican movement in the 1860s.
Stevens, a fervent opponent of slavery and prejudice against black Americans, spearheaded the resistance to American President Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction in an effort to guarantee their rights.
Thaddeus Stevens played a key role as the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, concentrating on the defeat of the Confederacy, raising money through new taxes and borrowing, destroying the influence of slave owners, putting an end to slavery, and securing equal rights for freedmen.
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