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The correct answer is letter <em>D. The French Revolution and the instability that followed it.</em>
Explanation:
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict that teared down France and ended with the putsch of Napoleon Bonaparte at the end of XVIII century. As a consequence, Auguste Comte, a French philosopher who established the basis of positivism. This results from the epistemology that he created and extends to Europe in the second half of XIX century. The need to study scientifically the human being was born due to the stitches of French Revolution, which forced to see society and individuals as objects.
Comte as well introduced the term of "sociology" which defines that society needs to be guided by thinkers who understand social laws.
Feudalism spread from France to Spain, Italy and Germany. The feudal system was originally a by-product from the Roman Empire. As the Roman Empire crumbled and the Viking raids increased, large landowners offered land and protection to their tenants in exchange for taxes and labor. By the 11th century, most parts of Germany were dominated by aristocrats. They considered it beneath themselves to farm the land so they offered the land to tenants in exchange for food and labor. They then bore arms and dispensed justice everywhere, even on their own lands.
As with the federal court system, the typical state court system has three levels. The three levels are the state trial courts, state appellate courts, and state supreme courts.
Ended the use of literacy and other voter qualification tests
This group of colonies had the most diverse populations in colonial America because of the influence of their Polish, English, Dutch, French and German origins.