this website should help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_Cape_of_Good_Hope
Hi!
In order for me to help you, could you please be more specific? What technology?
Articles of Confederation - it was adopted as the nation's first constitution in November 1777
The biggest reason that the United States sent Matthew Perry to Japan was to use it as a "coaling base" or a base where steamships, which used coal, could restock their coal supply.