Alexander the Great wanted to conquer Asia, defeat the Persians, and Unite Greece :)
1. The chief characteristic is that a ruler rules with unlimited power. They don't have to worry about the people or parliaments or the constitution or anything similar since their word is the law even if if is opposite to the actual law. Absolutists have absolute power over governing and nobody is allowed to question them.
2. One of the major causes was religious turmoil. The Holy Roman Empire was split into numerous smaller kingdoms which were fighting over protestantism and catholicism and they started the thirty years' war which eventually got everyone in Europe to join and was utterly devastating killing millions of people.
3. One of the results is that supporters of the protestants got the religious freedom to practice protestantism along with Princes who ruled the smaller kingdoms. This resulted in a heavy reduce of Catholic power in the central and northern Europe and let to later counter reformation movements to get power back.
4. The correct answer is divine right, also known as the divine right of kings. According to them, they were rulers of people on earth because god chose them to be the rulers and they were allowed to reign supreme because they represented the will of god. Naturally, many people disliked this so revolutions started rising.
5. The Tsar who modernized the country and started spreading towards the warm waters was Peter the Great. He went to Europe to learn about how to modernize his country and implemented many of the things he learned. The Tsarina who managed build a port on the warm-water area was Catherine the Great.
6. The minister's name was Cardnial Richelieu. He was a cardinal of the Catholic church and he reduced the power of both the nobles and of the Catholic church in order to centralize power. Even though he was a member of the Catholic church, he often supported protestants in order to reduce the power of the Catholics and make sure that the King reigned supreme.
7. The correct answer is the social contract. This is an idea of the enlightenment era that people should give away certain freedoms in order to ensure the functioning of the society. In return, they would get stability and protection from the state and the state and the individuals would prosper in the long run.
8. The correct answer is John Locke. He was an enlightenment thinker who developed numerous ideas on democracy and how a government should work and these ideas were one of the main ones that influenced things like the declaration of independence and the constitution in the United States.
B. Puerto Rico.
Don't think Cuba
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Es la economía mundial la que pensamos que está globalizada. Queremos decir que el mundo entero se está comportando cada vez más como si fuera parte de un mercado único, con producción interdependiente, consumiendo bienes similares y respondiendo a los mismos impulsos. La globalización se manifiesta en el crecimiento del comercio mundial como proporción de la producción (la relación entre las importaciones mundiales y el producto mundial bruto, GWP, ha crecido de alrededor del 7% en 1938 a alrededor del 10% en 1970 a más del 18% en 1996). Se refleja en la explosión de la inversión extranjera directa (IED): la IED en los países en desarrollo ha aumentado de 2.200 millones de dólares en 1970 a 154.000 millones en 1997. También ha dado lugar a que los mercados de capitales nacionales se hayan integrado cada vez más, hasta el punto de que unos 1,3 billones de dólares por día cruza los mercados de divisas del mundo, de los cuales menos del 2% es directamente atribuible a transacciones comerciales.
Si bien no se pueden medir con la misma facilidad, algunas otras características de la globalización son quizás incluso más interesantes. Una parte cada vez mayor del consumo consiste en bienes que están disponibles en las mismas empresas en casi cualquier parte del mundo. La tecnología que se utiliza para producir estos bienes está cada vez más estandarizada e invariable a la ubicación de producción. Sobre todo, las ideas se han convertido cada vez más en propiedad común de toda la humanidad.
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