The island nation you are referring to is Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has two capitals: Colombo, and the other one is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
They were loyal to church and nation but they were more loyal to nation
Answer:
Explanation:
Moral Development theory was given Lawerence Kohlberg.
it consists of three stages.
Pre-conventional:
stage 1: punishment and obedience orientation :
In this stage, the child modeled as he is good to avoid punishment. if someone punished him/ her do wrong things.
For example: Usually, children try to show themselves that they are good at their level but when their parents punished them at something then they did wrong to satisfy their ego.
stage 2: Instrumental relativist orientation:
In this stage, the children start to believe that there is not only one viewpoint behind the reason but other people's viewpoints also do matter and believe that different people have different viewpoints.
Conventional :
stage 3: Good boy; nice girl
stage 4: Law and order orientation
Post-Conventional:
stage 5: Social contract orientation
stage 6: Universal ethical principal
The author means by the phrase that People were able to choose who would lead their governments.
Explanation:
In the 20th century there were a lot of new nations that were formed out of old imperialistic colonies and most of them adopted, or ended up adopting a democratic system of governance where the people have the right to choose who would govern over them and the positions are rotating.
This is something that could be called to have given greater ability for the people to govern their own lives and the author has teemed the century thus as the century where the [power went to the people.