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The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with ... Taxation was needed to prop up the army and navy. The combination of inflation and taxation caused great colonial discontent.

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GWYNNE DYER In classical civilizations, there was a continuing, unresolved debate about whether history moved forward or just went around in circles: was it linear or was it cyclical? But that ...

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