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GCSE English Literature · key term
A payment made by one state or ruler to another as a sign of submission.
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Paper 1
Revise: Usurpation and kingshipIn return for help seizing Milan, Antonio agreed to pay tribute and submit the dukedom to Naples. Prospero and Miranda were expelled and set adrift in an unsafe boat; Gonzalo supplied provisions and books that helped them survive.
Paper 1
A payment made by one ruler or state to another as a sign of submission.
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In return for help overthrowing Prospero, he promised annual tribute and homage: payments and acknowledgement of Naples’s superior authority. His ambition therefore cost Milan its independence as well as Prospero his position. Antonio opened Milan’s gates to an army, and Prospero and the young Miranda were removed at night and abandoned in an unseaworthy boat.
