Because the rise of merchants weakened the power of monarchs making the peasants leave their manors for towns where they could find work. Also, agriculture stopped being profitable bec merchants imported food so there was no more need for agriculture
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A, C, and D
Approximately 80 percent of the city was flooded.
Thousands were stranded and needed rescues.
The city faced a public health emergency.
In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
