Primary Sources: Excerpts from Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Which two of the following sentences from the article include central ideas of the article?

1. In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense;...
2. But the injuries and disadvantages, which we sustain by that connection are without number.
3. As Europe is our market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part of it.
4. The business of it will soon be too weighty and complex to be managed by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us.

A) 1 and 2

B) 3 and 4

C) 1 and 3

D) 2 and 4

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

explanation:

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b gas tractor

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c and negotiated lower prices for farm equipment and supplies

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d the grange

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c over 15,000 bankrupt businesses

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c people became more self-sufficient