Why do historians think there was an increased sense of privacy, comfort, and familial demonstration during this period?
a. A growing sense of individualism as promoted in the Enlightenment.
b. Increased wealth made luxury goods more standardized.
c. Effects of greater awareness of other cultures in the world.
d. Demands for privacy were increased by a greater population.
e. The end of the wars of religion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
a
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