Mercantilism, the country needs a favorable balance of trade so it exports more than it imports goods. The mother country would import manufactured goods to the colony exporting raw materials in exchange. For example the Columbian exchange exported new foods and crops from the Americas such as maize, tobacco, sugar, cotton and potatoes. Horses were brought from Europe and introduced to the Native American people. For example: the Lakota mostly hunted buffalo and this practice was improved with the introduction of horses.
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The positive effects of the Progressive Era could include:
1) The advance in women's suffrage
2) Education laws
3) Working condition laws
4) Unions for workers
5) Industrialization
6) Child labor laws
Answer
Nations at war targeted neighboring nations of the enemy as an offensive strategy
Explanation:
The alliances were made so you had support if a war broke out. Germany during World War I was known for its offensive strategy due to a strong nationalism. They also had imperialist ideas about creating a great Germany. The other nations was forced to declare war on Germany as they made a pact with Austria-Hungary. When Germany made that pact and helped Austria-Hungary, the other alliances was forced to fight Germany as a defensive strategy against them.
It implies the focus of the empire as a whole was moving away from the Western half. The West was poor and stretched to thin to face the germanic hordes. Rome had been sacked multiple times and just never returned to what it once was. This time of weakness for the Western half of the empire provided the opportunity for the eastern half to become prominent and the cultural and political center for the Roman people. The fact that Justinian was the last emperor to speak latin showed how a complete shift had taken place in Roman society. Suddenly Greek became the language of choice and Byzantium became the most important part of the empire. In short it illustrates the fall of the west and rise of the east.
