Why does Dan White resign from the Board of Supervisors?

René Descartes believed he had proven the existence of God through his use of systematic doubt in his book:

He was a major enlightenment historian who wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (published in a multi-volume work in the 1770s and 1780s). Following a rational approach to the study of the past, he tried to determine the cause and effects of historical developments.

The goal of Peter the Great’s foreign policy was to:

Among the fastest growing group of readers in the eighteenth century was the female middle class.  

The deductive method of inquiry was formulated by:

Unlike the French physiocrats who believed that the wealth of a nation came from the land and agricultural production, Adam Smith believed that the wealth of a nation came from its:

In the late seventeenth century, European wars almost always had a colonial aspect.  

Baruch Spinoza applied geometry to ethics and deduced that the universe was made of a  single substance that was both God and nature in one.  

The Estates-General in France never met during the reign of Louis XIV.