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Common sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776, <em>it turned a largely local Massachusetts protest for redress specific grievances into an ideological crusade for the idea of Republicanism because</em> it made people question themselves about being part of Britain or being Independent, Common sense convinced the people they had the means to achieve independence, Thomas Paine exposed the following reasons why Independence was better for the 13 Colonies:
- Britain had no right in killing people at Boston because "a mother would never murder her child".
- The 13 Colonies needed to fight with Britain's enemies even though they weren't their enemies.
- The 13 Colonies needed Independence in order to survive and grow, because they would be able to free trade with other countries like France and Spain.
- The king would never care for the colonies as much as he did for Britain because he lived there.
- The 13 Colonies needed a Republican system were power would come from the people.
- A king should not be trusted with power because by God's grace everyone is equal and it makes no sense someone is qualified for the job just by birth right.
The influence of the Reformation was not so great, in fact some reformation thinkers disagreed with Enlightenment ideas
<em>The Vietnamese generals with the support of the United States are the ones</em> who began plotting a coup to overthrow Ngo Dinh Diem. At first, the U.S. government firmly denied the accusation however, it was proven later that they indeed supported the group who created the coup.
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B: Spain was a weaker nation and France a stronger one.
This was the result of the Thirty Years' War.
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There were various reasons, religious, territorial and commercial rivalries which led to a thirty-year war, from 1618 to 1648 in European’s history. It started with the Holy Roman emperor imposing Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains and the protest of Bohemians and Austrians to the same.
Various other political reasons kept fueling the war between Poland, Spain, Russia, Moscow. In all these conflicts, Germany suffered the most. So, it couldn’t become a unified state. At the end, peace of Westphalia recognized Europe as an organisation of equal independent states. France emerged as the strongest nation as Spain was hurt badly.
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He describes the heliocentric model, where the earth revolves around the sun, 1,000 years before Copernicus proposed his theory in 1543.
