The excerpt posted above is actually taken from the novel "The Rice Sprout Song" which was written by Eileen Chang. And based on the excerpt above, how the underlined words invoked a sense of place and time is that it refers to the Chinese Nationalist victory. This novel was written by the author in the communist China. The answer would be the last option.
Answer:
D.
Explanation:
It reminded them of an old past that they used to have
Answer: "guaranteed the safety of any merchant"
Explanation: in the excerpt we can see the description of how the merchants started to buy and sell products in Europe around the year 1150. The phrase that indicates that it was dangerous for merchants to travel, is "guaranteed the safety of any merchant", because the idea of having to guaranteed the safety, indicates that it was some kind of danger.
Kant's distinction between guardians and minors is based on the propensity of people to dwell in their own immaturity and let others take care of them. Both guardians and minors are victims of this propensity; only, they are placed on the opposite poles. Neither guardians nor minors dare to think for themselves. However, minors almost entirely give up their intellectual potential, indulging in their own laziness of the mind. They rely on different types of guardians. For example, priests are the guardians of their souls; physicians are the guardians of their bodies; politicians are the guardians of their social order, etc. Basically, they are lulled in their comfortable positions of non-thinkers. We have to say, though, that Kant doesn't judge on people for being one or the other. He just proposes that they can rise above those passive positions with the help of enlightenment.