Mark the statement about the german states and people if it is correct.
a.
by 1800, the holy roman empire was little more than a loose collection of separate states.
b.
the people of the german states shared customs and language but did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation.
c.
the german-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when napoleon conquered them and they fell under french rule.

The correct answers are A) by the 1800s, the Holy Roman Empire was Little more than a loose collection of separated states, B) the people from German states shared customs and language but they did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation, and C) the German-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when Napoleon conquered them and they felt under French rule.

The statements about the German states and people that are correct are “by the 1800s, the Holy Roman Empire was Little more than a loose collection of separated states, the people from German states shared customs and language but they did not think of themselves as belonging to one nation, and the German-speaking people began to feel a common bond with each other when Napoleon conquered them and they felt under French rule.

German unification was the product of the efforts of the aristocratic Prussian Otto von Bizmark. People in those territories did not consider themselves of the same nationality although they spoke the same language and shared the same customs. They respected each other and respected their territories. But when Napoleon conquered those territories, people started to feel more closeness with each other.  

one central belief of buddhism is often referred to as reincarnation -- the concept that people are reborn after dying. buddhism is a philosophy of life expounded by gautama buddha ("buddha" means "enlightened one"), who lived and taught in northern india in the 6th century b.c.

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.