The correct answers are:
- Many people began to use reason and observation in studying the world - Enlightenment period was also called the period of science and reason over faith and superstition. Descartes is one example over this because he developed a method to solve problems.
- Political thinkers concluded that government is a contract between ordinary people and a ruler - The social contract was a theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and originated from Thomas Hobbes work in The Leviathan.
- Philosophers sought ways to make society better - Many philosophers wrote many works during this time such as The Separation of Powers of Montesquieu, Religious Tolerance by Voltaire, ideas of Democracy, inalienable rights, liberty and others by John Locke.