Which describes the work of henry david thoreau? a. his essay on civil disobedience inspired martin luther king, jr., and mohandas gandhi. b. his poetry on the revolutionary war became the basis for many patriotic songs. c. his stories and novels about indians and the frontier are still popular reading today. d. his books on nature inspired artists to focus on painting landscapes of the american west.

in 476 c.e. romulus, the last of the roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the roman empire had brought to western europe for 1000 years was no more.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.