The world's population today is much larger than it has been in anytime in the history of the world, and has been continuing to grow ever since the Industrial Revolution, since this raised the living standards and increased in incomes of an enormous number of people, especially in the western world. Advances in medicine have also played a major role.
The Japanese attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya and to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference.
This is <em>exactly</em> what we are learning in History at our school too.
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The colonists protested taxation by: Colonists would boycott British goods; why did they boycott British goods? Because the colonists weren't happy with Great Britain because of the French and Indian War; Great Britain had to pay the war debts.