What country did the thirteen american colonies belong to prior to forming the united states?

Great Britain

Explanation:

the thirteen colonies that became the USA were originally colonies of Great Britain by the time the American Revolution took place, the citizens of these colonies were beginning to get tired of the British rule.

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john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.