The American colonists might have agreed, but they wanted to have a say in the decision. They wanted the right to vote about their own taxes, like the people living in Britain. But no colonists were permitted to serve in the British Parliament. So they protested that they were being taxed without being represented.
The Enlightenment thinker was Jean-Jacques Rousseau
50 years is a long time but not long enough for the preconquest Aztec to forget their way of living before the Spanish came. The compromise lies in how easy it is to get historical information from the Aztec since some of them will have already learned Spanish very well and between how accurate these historical accounts are since little details about the preconquest Aztec society can be forgotten in 50 years.
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So we do not make the same mistakes we made in the past.
A Heliocentric Theory. By 1532 Copernicus had mostly completed a detailed astronomical manuscript he had been working on for 16 years. He had resisted publishing it for fear of the ensuing controversy and out of hope for more data.
The heliocentric model was generally rejected by the ancient philosophers for three main reasons: If the Earth is rotating about its axis, and orbiting around the Sun, then the Earth must be in motion. However, we cannot ``feel'' this motion. Nor does this motion give rise to any obvious observational consequences.
