I believe the answer is: <span> were forced to pay high taxes.
</span><span>Peter Stuyvesant had the ambition to expand Netherlands colony in order to compete with British Empire.
Because of this, he forced the colonies to pay high taxes in order to improve the state income.</span>
In Rome’s legislative branch, plebeians served in the Assemblies while the Senate’s members were "patricians". This word meant "father" and they were given far more responsibility than the plebeians.
The main reason why OPEC imposed an oil embargo on the US is because the US supported Israel in its “Yom Kippur War” with Egypt, and OPEC was made up of states that were against Israel, who was fighting the war against Egypt.
D. Reasons for the Decline of the Greek Democracies