What could you do as an individual to directly influence government actions?

You can send them letters or protest. If you send a letter to the government they will most likely read it since they have multiple workers in the mail sector. If you protest you will be able to affect the government even more since more people will see it and it would affect them on an emotional level.

Explanation:

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the catholic church withhold people's access to the bible during the middle ages.

people could go to church and listen to the teachings, but it was absolutely forbidden to own and/or read the books of both the old and new testaments. it was also prohibited to translate the books (which where originally in biblical hebrew) to any other language.

this was done so the church could remain in control of what their teachings were and to enhance their importance and power, while also being able to judge people's actions through information that was unavailable for the general public.

no because we were not ready for war