Why were Spain and Portugal taxing their colonies so much? To help pay for a) new crown jewels for the Kings b) fancy houses for the Peninsulares c) wars d) food for the starving people

In this unit, you read about transitions of power and the formation of newly independent nations in africa, asia, the americas, and the middle east. some of these transitions were peaceful, while others caused long-term instability. why do you think some countries were more successful than others with political transitions? what do you think were the biggest challenges facing newly independent countries? would it have been possible for leaders to prevent these problems before they happened? why or why not?

In the course of illness senerational campaign against stephen douglas in1858 abraham declared that

One of galileo’s contributions to science was a creating the coordinate plane system. b developing the scientific method. c improving the telescope. d inventing the astrolabe.