Inferring the behavior and function of ancient organisms is hard. Some paleontologists would say that it cannot be done because such hypotheses can never be testable, whereas others would say that this is surely a prime task for paleontology—to seek to bring ancient organisms back to life.
These issues have long troubled paleontologists. The founder of comparative anatomy, Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), insisted on the common pattern of the skeleton of living and fossil vertebrates and that anatomy could be reconstructed with confidence from incomplete fossil remains. Further, he argued that the skeleton of a living or extinct animal held unequivocal clues about function and behavior. Cuvier saw his mission to establish rules for comparative anatomy that would allow paleontologists to make certain statement with clarity and confidence [1], a key principle today, what one might call “evidence-based reconstruction” (for example, sharp teeth indicate a diet of meat rather than plants, or mammalian characters in the teeth indicate that the unknown animal was endothermic and nourished its young from mammary glands) as opposed to speculation (“this dinosaur was purple because I guess it was”).
One significant characteristic of the Congo Free State colony which Belgium established, was B. The colony became extremely profitable through its use of a violent forced-labor system.
<h3>What happened in the Congo Free State colony?</h3>
When King Leopold II established a Belgian colony in the Congo, he was brutal with its inhabitants and imposed a forced-labor system.
This allowed the colony to become very profitable as King Leopold II did not have to pay for labor costs.
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I guess one of the arguments would be that it upset the balance of free and slave states (Missouri compromise)
<span>The system of cooperation known as feudalism ended around the 15th century.
Feudalism was a complex system of relationships between people of different classes. The king stood at the top of the system, and nobles were viewed as holding their lands in exchange for their military service to the king. The nobles then had vassals underneath them. And at the bottom of the system, depending on the upper classes for protection and laws, were the peasants, who gave a share of their produce to the lords above them as their part of the exchange.
As a dominant system of society in Western Europe, feudalism had faded by 1500. One reason was that kings had begun to employ professional soldiers for their armies, rather than relying on the nobles to be called upon when needed. Also, the plague of the Black Death that swept through Europe in the 14th century had disrupted the relationships between the nobility and the lower classes. Aspects of feudalism persisted in Europe for a couple centuries, but the full system had reached the end of its dominance in society by the 15th century. In France, all last vestiges of feudalism were abolished during the French Revolution of the 18th century.</span>
