Answer:
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Explanation:
Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter superpower rivalry over the years. The distinct differences in the political systems of the two countries often prevented them from reaching a mutual understanding on key policy issues and even, as in the case of the Cuban missile crisis, brought them to the brink of war.
The United States government was initially hostile to the Soviet leaders for taking Russia out of World War I and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. Although the United States embarked on a famine relief program in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s and American businessmen established commercial ties there during the period of the New Economic Policy (1921–29), the two countries did not establish diplomatic relations until 1933. By that time, the totalitarian nature of Joseph Stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the West. Although World War II brought the two countries into alliance, based on the common aim of defeating Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union's aggressive, antidemocratic policy toward Eastern Europe had created tensions even before the war ended.
The Soviet Union and the United States stayed far apart during the next three decades of superpower conflict and the nuclear and missile arms race. Beginning in the early 1970s, the Soviet regime proclaimed a policy of détente and sought increased economic cooperation and disarmament negotiations with the West. However, the Soviet stance on human rights and its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 created new tensions between the two countries. These tensions continued to exist until the dramatic democratic changes of 1989–91 led to the collapse during this past year of the Communist system and opened the way for an unprecedented new friendship between the United States and Russia, as well as the other new nations of the former Soviet Union.
When it fell most people lost trading routes and trading partners since Rome was a big city and everybody went there to trade
Answer: Sir Bedivere being contemplative.
This excerpt's imagery is intented to tell the reader that Sir Bedivere was in a state of contemplation. We can see that by the use of phrases such as:
- <em>Counting the dewy pebbles:</em> He is doing some monotonous activity that requires little mental effort. He is likely thinking of something else meanwhile.
- <em>Fixed in thought:</em> Concentrating on some specific thought that is of great importance to him.
Answer:
Inferior, basically.
Explanation:
Married women were not allowed to participate in, or to watch, the ancient Olympic Games. However, unmarried women could attend the competition, and the priestess of Demeter, goddess of fertility, was given a privileged position next to the Stadium altar
<u>Only men, boys and unmarried girls</u> were allowed to attend the Olympic Games. Married women were barred.
If they were caught sneaking in, they could be thrown off the side of a mountain as punishment!
However, women could still own horses in the chariot races at the Olympics and unmarried women had their own festival at Olympia every four years.
This was called the Heraia and was held in honour of Hera, Zeus's wife. Winners were awarded crowns of sacred olive branches, the same as men. But in ancient Greece, only Spartan women were really interested in sport.
