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Salutary neglect was a large contributing factor that led to the American Revolutionary War. Since the imperial authority did not assert the power that it had, the colonists were left to govern themselves. These essentially sovereign colonies soon became accustomed to the idea of self-control.
Heliocentric means that B. The Earth and other planets all orbit around the Sun. This is because the Sun has a very strong gravitational pull, which makes the other planets orbit around it. Without the Sun to keep the planets in an orbit, they would go flying into space. We always thought the Sun was the one who went around us, because that was our only perspective until telescopes and spacecrafts came around. :D
