rise of west and russia
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- Charles I was by no means a perfect king. He needed a lot of money for his wars raised taxes a lot, which made the Parliament bonkers!They got so angry they tried to get him to sign a petition acknowledging their right to tax, which of course he ignored, which of course made them even more angry.
- AN INSIDER INSIDE LOOK INTO THE RISE OF THE WEST AND RUSSIA
- Sign this
- A most positively preposterous proceeding.
- I love taxes
- No
- EXCLUSIVE EDITION!
- Precisely.
- We hate you
- Oh, you youngsters with all your new fangled enlightenment ideas. Back in my day, our revolutions were bloody and battalious. I lived through the English Civil War.
- Grrr
- Commencing with a closed-doors coffeehouse conversation in London with renowned philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke..
- People good
- Bah humbug
- Part of a people's natural rights is the right to rebel against an unjust ruler, and that is exactly what the English people did!
- Remember King James II, the absolutely horrid king who abused his subjects and literally imprisoned people who disagreed with him? Well around 1688 Parliament succeeded in bloodlessly deposing his regime and placing William and Mary on the throne. Talk about a glorious revolution!
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- The Parliament was so angry with Charles I and his "absolutist tendencies" that in 1640 they initiated the English Civil War, which lasted nearly a decade and sent the nation into physical and economic ruins.
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