Which best defines history?

a. discovery and classification of human artifacts

b. study of the human past and the story of change over time

c. study of prehistoric peoples and the way they changed

d. people, places, and events of previous centuries

  the common sense as a pamphlet written by thomas paine. it promoted the independence of the colonies from british rule. the distribution of this pamphlet was great, it reached people everywhere and it was even read aloud at places people met. it also unite the colonists before the revolutionary war.

answer is d

it granted civil rights to african americans.