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A thing like a ball of stone comes out of its entrails: it comes out shooting
sparks and raining fire... If it is aimed against a tree, it shatters the tree into
splinters. This is a most unnatural sight, as if the tree had exploded from within.
They dress in iron. Their deer carry them on their back wherever they wish to go
These deer, our lord, are as tall as the roof of a house."
-- from The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the
Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla

Which four excerpts from the poem "a political reverie" by mercy otis warren imply that america was an oppressed and exploited nation? no despot here shall rule with awful sway nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey; no more the widow'd bleeding bosom mourns, nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons; for then each tyrant, by the hand of fate, and standing troops, the bane of every state, forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far as bright hesperus from the polar star; freedom and virtue shall united reign, and stretch their empire o'er the wide domain. on a broad base the commonwealth shall stand, when lawless power withdraws its impious hand; when crowns and sceptres are grown useless things, nor petty pretors plunder here for kings