IMPORTANT! Based on the passage below, which best describes the political situation in Latin America in 1800?

In 1800, Spanish and Portuguese monarchs still ruled their colonies in the Americas with a tight grip. They saw the colonies as little more than sources of wealth for the ruling (mother) country. To make sure they got as much money and resources from their colonies, the mother countries imposed harsh policies on the colonies, including a rigid class structure. European born Peninsulares carried out the King's will. Colonists, especially Creoles, white aristocrats born in the Americas, complained. As the 18th century came to a close, more Latin American colonists started to speak of revolution. Inspired by events in North America and Europe, they talked eagerly about being free from the rule of kings.

Question 1 options:

Most of the region's colonies were ruled by European nations and were ready to fight for independence.

Roughly half of the region's colonies had gained their independence through revolution.

The United States and France were helping prepare Latin America for independence.

Spain and Portugal were in the process of granting independence to their colonies.

most of the regions colonies were ruled by european nations and we’re ready to fight for independence.

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where are the statements?

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.