What did “common sense” persuade the people to do and who wrote it?

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.

Explanation: Google

it repeats in the format of each sentence "the gods [blank]"

i also see that they are way better humans.

a, both were musicians during the jazz age