Christopher Columbus was instructed by the King, and Queen of Spain to travel to the new world in search of valuable natural resources. Columbus had his own inclinations to travel being that the idea that the world was spherical had not yet been a well accepted fact.
In "The Petition of William Cobbett" in volume 33 of his political register, the author clearly refers to King James as "The Oppressor", who has raised money on arbitrary means and is not administering in a way it benefits the citizens of the kingdom. It is mentioned that King James raised the money in order to fund affairs regarding "army, navy and civil listing".
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Answer 1: Because they needed money to pay their debts from the war
Answer 2: Taxes
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Britain needed money to pay for its war debts. The King believed that they had the right to tax the colonies.
Duties means the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
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The philosophes (French for 'philosophers') were writers, intellectuals and scientists who shaped the French Enlightenment during the 18th century. The best known philosophes were Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot
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In the past when a civilization lost a war the symbols and buildings of the culture were destroyed by the winning party. One of the things often broken was statues because they were often of rulers or gods from that culture. Actually, there is about an equal number for both cultures of destroyed items. It just seems that Greek items are around more because they are large marble statues that are uncovered in digs of historical sites
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