Following the Enlightenment, many Europeans began to

(a) support the ideas of "divine right" and absolute rule.

(b) believe people could improve their government.

(c) worry that monarchs would always be in power.

(d) fear that all government would be abolished.

The answer is A. The Enlightenment is the period in the historical backdrop of western thought and culture, extending generally from the mid-many years of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, described by sensational upheavals in science, theory, society and legislative issues.