The following question refers to the topic of the Enlightenment Which of the following best explains why Enlightenment thinkers were interested in applying principles from the natural sciences to the interpretation and improvement of social and political institutions?
Advances in the natural sciences were increasingly supported by royal patronage of scientific societies and individual researchers
B) Religious authorities sometimes opposed the spread of new theories in the natural sciences.
C Many of the most eminent natural scientists came from the same social backgrounds as Enlightenment political thinkers.
D
Natural scientists had developed predictive laws and rigorous methods for understanding natural phenomena.

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these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india

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