Who contended that knowledge must be used to promote the public well-being?
a. Lorenzo de' Medici
b. Petrarch
c. Pico della Mirandola
d. Lorenzo Valla
e. Erasmus
b
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a. the East India Company. b. British military actions against the Mughal armies. c. the Indians being forced to plant cotton, resulting in insufficient food production. d. internal wars between competing maharajahs. e. decrease in the number of farmers, as a result of diseases imported by the Europeans.