D. The colonists had lived under Britains unwritten constitution and paid the consequences
Answer:
D - the ''mourning wars''
Explanation:
The Protestant reformation in Europe brought lot of changes with it. For starters, it managed to significantly lower the power of the Catholic Church, through splitting it and gaining lot of its followers. The Protestantism was a much more liberal type of Christianity which was not forcing the people to do certain things and to use the fear factor to control, which normally attracted the people and moved them away from the corrupt Catholic Church at that time. This led to wars between the Catholics and the Protestants which often were very long and bloody. One thing that the Protestantism did not contributed to are the ''mourning wars'', as those are wars between the US states and the Iroquois Confederacy which had nothing to do with religion.
Wang Mang hoped to gather support from the peasantry be introducing reforms. Wang Mang announced the discovery of books written by Confucius, which were supposedly discovered after Confucius’ house, was destroyed more than two hundred years ago. The discovered work supported the same kind of reform that Wang Mang sought.
Wang Mang defended his policies by quoting from the discovered books. Following what was portrayed as Confucian scripture; he decreed a return to the golden times when every man had his measure of land to till, land that in principle belonged to the state. He declared that a family of less than eight that had more than fifteen acres was obligated to distribute the excess amount of land to those who had none.
