The building of temples and great cities without modern machinery, using astronomy to predict astrological cycles and plant crops and using their language to communicate and measure time are some of the Mayans most notable achievements.<span> During a 600-year period of time, which was from 300 A.D. until 900 A.D., the Mayans made many great achievements in science, communications, engineering and agriculture.</span>
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Galloway's purpose in writing the letter was to point out his solution to the problem of colonists resisting the imposition of taxes by the British government. It was the first impulse of what would later be known as the Galloway's Plan of Union, which consisted in creating a parliament of American colonists who would oversee the decisions the British parliament had for the new continent.
In the letter, Galloway recognized the burden of sustaining the colonies as being a reasonable cause for the United Kingdom to tax colonists, but recognized the inability of the later to pay due to the trading restrictions set by the English.
He suggested that if colonists considered the impositions too heavy, they should refer to more rational methods than rioting to let the British understand that they couldn't pay the taxes, for example by sending American representatives to the British parliament.
