The magna carta was important to the development of modern democracy
because it:
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a. placed legal restrictions on rulers who had once held absolute
power.
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b. served as the written constitution of the first direct democracy.
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c. forced governments to follow the principles laid out by
enlightenment thinkers
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d. combined judeo-christian and greco-roman principles for the
first time.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference