Christopher Columbus sailed West from Spain and discovered the Americas.
Answer:
No one shall be held in slavery; slavery and the slave-trade in all their forms shall be prohibited.
No one shall be held in servitude.
Explanation:
They would be...
-killed
-tortured
-be bidded on
I would go with Lavish Spending by the royal court.
Versailles had over 30 water fountains? Each were power by hand.
I know financing the American Revolution was expensive, and took several decades to pay back France.
America considers it paid particularly from WWI and WWII.