What is the Eightfold Path? the route by which Buddhism spread from its origins in India a specific school of Buddhism practiced mainly in Sri Lanka the road that Siddhartha Gautama wandered before he became the Buddha a guide explaining the qualities and practices needed to reach enlightenment

abraham lincoln issued the preliminary emancipation proclamation on september 22nd, 1862. it stipulated that if the southern states did not cease their rebellion by january 1st, 1863, then proclamation would go into effect.

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.