enlightenment philosophers challenged the idea of divine right of kings and wrote about government obligations to uphold peoples rights and how the government should be based on the consent of the governed. What did these new ideas encourage people to do?

Locke encouraged government to be for The People, by the people. In other words, one person should not be able to have more power than any other person in the republic.

The new enlightnment ideas also encouraged people to be in the pursuit of happiness, have the right to private property, and most importantly, separate the church from the state.

Explanation:

In a nutshell...enlightenment philosophers like Locke. challenged the idea of the Divine rights of kings when they pointed out that in The Bible, when God told Adam that he (Adam) rules above everything else that God had created, God didn't mean ONE single person (Adam) was going to be ruling above everyone else (Patriarchy), but instead human kind as a whole to rule above the animals, plants, waters and such.

these conditions long with a short growing season made farming difficult.

explanation:

the north has a climate of warm summers and snowy cold winters. the terrain is rocky, hilly, and not good for farming.

the answer is the government.