What answer best expresses why secularism came to be?
1.european monarchs were fed up with the church dominating everything. 2.renaissance thinkers showed how the church was not meeting the needs of the people.
3.renaissance culture introduced the idea of enjoying life on earth rather than focusing one's earthly efforts on spiritual salvation.
4.people were more interested in types of art and philosophy that disagreed with the church.
5.humanism was such a compelling philosophy that it drew people away from the church.

1.European monarchs were fed up with the Church dominating everything.

Explanation:

As the church was gaining more and more power, the diverse monarchs were already tired of habing to answer to the Vatican, and because it was a large source of power before they had to do it, but since British had left the vatican and started their own religion, that was lead by the king other monarchs assumed and started to think that it was no longer necessary to be backed up by the pope to be able to rule a country, this added up with the ideas of the reinassance helped to emancipate empires from the vatican influence.

the mongolian invasion of china and central asia resulted in a disruption of the silk road as the chinese garrisons lost support from the chinese kingdoms which fell under the mongols. however, as the mongols established a formal dynasty in china, the successors of genghis khan restored the garrisons along the silk road allowing the safe travel caravans again.

besides the fact that abraham lincoln abolished slavery, and greatly benefit black people, he had a heavy impact of the definition of what democracy was, and should be.