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2) Protesting a lack of representation in Parliament
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During this time period, the British Empire began to assert more influence in the American Colonies. It wanted a tighter political control over the colonies, and it also raised taxes on them.
The colonists, who were used to lower taxes, and a great degree of independence, were outraged. They demanded "no taxation without representation", meaning that no laws affected them should be decreed in the British Parliament without representation from the American Colonies.
Answer: B
Literacy became common only among elites.
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Penn
Direct democracy.
Athenian democracy was the first democracy, developed around the fifth century B.C.E. The Greek idea of democracy was different from present-day democracy because, in Athens, all adult citizens were required to take an active part in the government.
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Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a sailing entrepreneur. He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay (China), India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia. At the time, Europeans knew no direct sea route to southern Asia, and the route via Egypt and the Red Sea was closed to Europeans by the Ottoman Empire, as were many land routes. Contrary to popular legend, educated Europeans of Columbus’ day did believe that the world was round, as argued by St. Isidore in the seventh century. However, Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed).
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