Politics of the Renaissance How did The Prince influence European rulers? A. It made rulers change their thinking and lean more toward republican forms of government. B. It made rulers turn to trickery and cruelty as a means of governing people. C. It made rulers and their counselors think less about abstract ideals and more about actual human conduct and likely results. D. It convinced many rulers that people have a natural right to self-government.

The correct answer is C) It made rulers and their counselors think less about abstract ideals and more about actual human conduct and likely results.

The Prince influenced European rulers in that it made rulers and their counselors think less about abstract ideals and more about actual human conduct and likely results.

"The Prince," written by Italian thinker and counselor Nicholas Machiavelli in 1532, was an acclaimed book that served as a series of guidelines for new princes and rulers in the middle ages. It proposes a series of strategies to deal with human conduct and human nature, and most of his work is still being applied event today by modern rulers and politicians.