The correct answer should be Johnatan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Daniel Defoe. They were among the first European novelists, right up there with Cervantes. Swift is famous for Gulliver's Travels, Henry Fielding for Tom Jones, and Daniel Defoe for Robinson Crusoe. They popularized the medium and people started reading novels more than poetry.
<span>He definitely wasn't a failure: he captained what became arguably the most famous voyage in the history of seafaring. True, he wasn't the first European to visit America (the Vikings were), but his journey opened up the East and the West and ushered in the modern era. That isn't something a failure could do.
But he certainly wasn't a hero, either. He was a ruthless and cruel man who inflicted unspeakable tortures upon innocent natives after he arrived in America.
He was neither a failure, nor a hero. He was a very succesful man who was also a horrible person.</span>
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Answer: tax charged on each pack of cigarettes.
Constantinople is an ancient city in modern-day Turkey that's now known as Istanbul. First settled in the seventh century B.C., Constantinople developed into a thriving port thanks to its prime geographic location between Europe and Asia and its natural harbor.