It’s a city state.
Explanation
The answer is old and nasty
The American Revolution, having been successful, inspired those in the 3rd Estate (the lower class) to revolt. Why should they be oppressed, they wondered, by an unfair higher power, when the colonists, experiencing (what they thought was) the same thing, could overthrow their oppressive power?
At the early stages of the colonies the exchanges between the Natives and the settlers was fairly one-sided, meaning that the Natives taught the settlers how to harvest and survive, and the settlers taught the Natives very little.
