Which of the following was a major cause of the russian revolution of 1917?
a. czar nicholas il's marriage to a german princess
b. russian peasants were treated as slave and paid high taxes
c. czar nicholas ii was related to the king of england
d. russia wanted to defy a treaty and wage war with germany

B) Russian Peasants were treated as slaves and paid high taxes

might be agreeing to participate ethically with other european nations in the slave trade

or notifying other european nations when taking possession   of african territories

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.