<span>Increased as a way to improve one's own economic and social opportunities.</span>
Portugal was the first independent nation
There were several events that prompted this meeting, but the most important was the passage of the "Intolerable Acts" when levied taxes on the Colonists and eventually led to the outbreak of war.
Because the printing press was not invented until later, so before that all books had to be copied by hand. It was very time-consuming and required a lot of skill.
