The American Revolution was precipitated, in part, by a series of laws passed between 1763 and 1775 that regulating trade and taxes. This legislation caused tensions between colonists and imperial officials, who made it clear that the British Parliament would not address American complaints that the new laws were onerous. British unwillingness to respond to American demands for change allowed colonists to argue that they were part of an increasingly corrupt and autocratic empire in which their traditional liberties were threatened. This position eventually served as the basis for the colonial Declaration of Independence<span>.</span>
Islam spread extensively along the east coast of Africa by foreign traders.
Other countries entered the on-going civil war and dividedly supported the republican or the nationalists. The German intervention triggered World War II when it supported the Nationalists, while France and Britain supported the Republicans. The military interventions led the countries to war.
Germany provided heavy military training and tactics to the Nationalists that later was formed as the Condor Legion, which led the Nationalists military. The Condor Legion experienced successive victories because of their rigorous training, however, in the end, they were defeated by Britain's army.
The Twelve Tables (aka Law of the Twelve Tables) was a set of laws inscribed on 12 bronze tablets created in ancient Rome in 451 and 450 BCE. They were the beginning of a new approach to laws where they would be passed by government and written down so that all citizens might be treated equally before them.
<span>The rise of computer corporations like Microsoft and dot.com businesses signaled the advent of
a. industrial technology.
b. the global information age.
c. mass democracy.
d. entrepreneurial capitalism.
e. the speculative stock market.</span>
b
<span></span><span>All of the following proved to be characteristics of the new information age economy except
a. instant global communications.
b. high-tech computer and media businesses.
c. the decline of traditional occupations mediating between products and clients.
d. an end to the boom-and-bust capitalist business cycle.
e. outsourcing of white collar American jobs to Third World countries.</span>
d
