Which of the following statements best describes how the first great awakening influenced the american revolution?
a. political leaders found religious meetings to be perfect forums for their views on how the colonies should separate from great britain.
b. religious meetings allowed colonists to gather secretly to create documents addressing grievances with the british government.
c. religious leaders actively encouraged citizens to collectively gather in an effort to revolt against their local government.
d. people were encouraged to voice their disagreements with church leaders, which led to people voicing their opinions about government.

d.People were encouraged to voice their disagreements with church leaders, which led to people voicing their opinions about government.

Explanation:

There was a Protestant movement called "The Great Awakening" in the 1730s-1740s which unified the religious forces in the colonies, which was the first step towards their final unification.  The movement consisted in preaching values of Protestantism, apparently forgotten by the inhabitants of the colonies. Some ministers traveled through the colonies seeking to realize the movement.  People who adhered to these ideals were called "New Lights" and people who did not adhere to them were called "Old Lights". After this event, US religiosity would decline for at least 80 years.

This movement failed to religiously unify the country, but at least it was a first step towards political unification that would culminate in the country's independence.

The first major awakening encouraged people to express their disagreements with church leaders, prompting people to express their views on the government.

answer:   migrations were important in the neolithic period. "two major migrations passing through southeastern europe were confirmed by the means of archaeo-genetic studies."

the first migration was the early neolithic period -- 6,000 before common era (bce) -- when the first farmers, from anatolia -- asia minor -- spread through europe. the second migration occurred during the early bronze age (3,000-2,500 bce) when the so-called "steppe population," from the eurasian steppe, replaced much of northern europe's previous population.

the first farmers of northern and western europe passed through southeastern europe with limited hunter-gatherer genetic admixture, which occurs when two or more previously isolated populations begin interbreeding. however, some groups that remained mixed extensively -- without the male-biased, hunter-gatherer admixture that prevailed later in the north and west, according to latest discoveries. southeastern europe continued to be a nexus between east and west, with intermittent genetic contact with the steppe people up to 2,000 years before the migrations that replaced much of northern europe's population.

"in some places, hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers seem to have mixed very quickly," says iain mathieson, a geneticist at the university of pennsylvania, who was first author of the paper. "but, mostly, the two groups remained isolated, at least for the first few hundred years. these hunter-gatherers had been living there for thousands of years, and it must have been quite a shock to have these new people show up -- with a completely different lifestyle and appearance."