The Olive Branch Petition was their last attempt to keep peace with Britain. They ticked the king off, and now after the battle of Lexington and Concord, the king is getting scary and they want his forgiveness. The OBT was sent to tell the king that the colonists would be loyal again.
The answer is C
The rest are incorrect because congress is legislature and the supreme is judical
<span>The correct answer is the following:
The Ottomans lost income
because overland trade through the Middle East declined.
This in fact was also the objective of da Gama's and others' interest in a direct rout to India (not the decline of trade of the Ottomans, but the fact that they would not have to pay high prices to the Ottomans anymore).
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