Mercantilism created competition between companies, states, and countries. My teacher once gave me the example of a tree cutter making tables. It was about who makes the most profit.
1.) John Locke sided with the protestant parliament against the Roman Catholic King James the second in the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689.
2.) In 1960, Locke published his book Treatises Of Government where he argued natural rights of the human being such as life and liberty.
3.) Locke's writing influenced many famous writers such as Voltaire and Rousseau.
4.) A little less than 100 years after Locke published his treatises of government, Thomas Jefferson used his theory in the declaration of independence!
5.) Locke believed that the natural rights of individuals limited the rights of the king.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
Answer: The Renaissance, that is, the period that extends roughly from the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeen century, was a time of intense, all-encompassing, and, in many ways, distinctive philosophical activity. A fundamental assumption of the Renaissance movement was that the remains of classical antiquity constituted an invaluable source of excellence to which debased and decadent modern times could turn in order to repair the damage brought about since the fall of the Roman Empire.