White examines the "middle ground" as both a place (the pays d'en haut of the Great Lakes region between 1650-1815) and a process of mutual accommodation between Algonquian-speaking Indians and French, British, and Americans. The middle ground consisted of creative misunderstandings in which Indians and Europeans attempted to build a set of mutually understandable practices. Several conditions are necessary for a middle ground process: a nonfunctioning or weak state authority, a relatively evenly-balanced distribution of power between peoples, the inability of one side to effectively use force over the other, and the need or desire to interact with one another (such as for trade goods). Both sides then try to engage in practices that the other side might find intelligible, such as European leaders consciously taking on the role of a patriarch that distributes gifts, mediates conflicts, and "covers" violent deaths. Indians, meanwhile, began participating in a market economy, compromised on legal punishments, and submitted to a limited degree to European oversight. The middle ground took place on both formal diplomatic levels (European powers budgeting for gift-giving) and the more everyday scale of individual interactions (sex and violence). People on both sides tried to justify their actions in terms of what they THOUGHT the other side's cultural framework to be (creative misunderstandings). Perhaps the best example is that of how they treated homicide, with both sides compromising - Europeans would sometimes cover the dead, while Indians would sometimes allow for individual perpetrators to be punished.
The narrative arc of The Middle Ground begins with a story of refugees, as Algonquian-speaking Indians flee northward from brutal warfare at the hands of the Iroquois during the 1640s-1660s. This places them in the orbit of French traders and missionaries and allow for the middle ground to flourish. The first half of the eighteenth century was a golden age for the middle ground, as Algonquians developed a relationship with Onontio (the title for a French governor) in which he was expected to act as a father in disbursing gifts and mediating conflicts. During this period the fur trade became deeply entangled with gift-giving, representing a hybrid form of exchange that was necessary for the system to function for both sides. During the 1740s and 1750s the French-Algonquian alliance began to weaken with increased competition from British. White drives home the point that in the pays d'en haut local, village politics were inseparable from imperial politics - instead of a hierarchical system of competing nation-states, the world of the middle ground took place between village alliances, intermarriages, and the decisions of specific chiefs that ended up reverberating across imperial politics.
The Moral Majority described itself as a political organization with religious goals
Answer: Option C
<u>Explanation:</u>
The moral majority was founded in the year 1979 by Jerry Falwell who was a religious leader in the United States. The moral majority was an organisation which was American political action committee and the part of this committee were the Christians.
The basic purpose of this organisation was to raise issues and campaign about the issues which were important to maintain Christianity into a moral law. Therefore this was an organisation that had political side as well the religious side combined.
Answer:
C. Present-day Chinese still refer o themselves as Han
Explanation:
The Han dynasty was one of the greatest Chinese dynasties. The Chinese people have deep admiration and respect for it even in the present. This dynasty was responsible for lot of achievements that managed to make the Chinese society more advanced and stronger. Despite all the achievements, the lasting effect of this ancient dynasty can be seen in the simplest of things, the way in which the present-day Chinese people refer to themselves. The present-day Chinese people have such a deep and intimate feeling for the Han dynasty that they have included and still use the term Han as part of their ethnicity.
<span>During the onset of the gold rush and growth of successful western miners, this set the stage for the Gilded Age because it led people to believe that striking it rich quickly through mining for gold would be a foolproof and easy way to make a living for oneself.</span>
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<h2>A. Communism was not contained in Vietnam.</h2>
Explanation:
The US withdrew its forces from Vietnam in 1973. By 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the North Vietnamese communist forces. South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered to North Vietnam on April 30, 1975. All of Vietnam became united under communist control.
There were also successful communist invasions of Laos and Cambodia also
