Taking into account the statement above: "The papacy attempted to overcome its fiscal crisis by:
Select one:
a. collecting a tax for appointments to ecclesiastical offices.
b. selling dispensations.
c. selling future appointments.
d. all of these.
e. None of these answers is correct."
The answer is: A.
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The correct answer is that water travel is easier than land travel.
But some additional aspects were that during a land travel, a lot of taxes were collected on the way by all the cities throug which one had to pass: and they hoped that water travel would bring the goods in cheaper.
There are the same type of arguments are against the political parties, and some of the deal programs are still used today.
The British won the French and Indian war, but it has exhausted their resources and money. They were in debt. In an attemp to get rid of this debt, they greatly increased taxes on American colonies for things like stamps, tea, and many other British imports. This was a big reason why the American colonists decided to rebel.
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