It would be Austria-Hungary’s imperialist ambitions to dominate the Balkans, as they couldn’t possibly stay a united country as there was many different languages and cultures which led to struggles for independence which led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist organization
This depends somewhat on what you classify as "west," but generally speaking, yes, this is true, since it was in Ancient Athens that the first democracy was formed.
Although reconstruction brought new educational opportunities to black Americans schools Were still largely segregated.
