In the 1960 Presidential elections, John F Kennedy became the democratic candidate despite his Catholicism.
This was surprising since Anti-Catholic sentiment was pretty high in mainstream American society at the time.
This was also seen as a reason why his presidential win was the closest in the history of the United States with a margin of just 118,000 out of 69 million votes.
Answer: Battuta left his native home in Morocco to order to comply with one of the five commandments of the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca, and already expand his legal studies in Egypt and Syria. In his journey he covered a distance greater than that of his contemporary Marco Polo, covering the whole west, center, and north of Africa, part of southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China.
In order to determine the answer for this, we much look at the 4 factors of production: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship. When it comes to industrialization, those nations that had these four capitals could easily follow suit. These were mostly those countries that were following the capitalist path. Taking America for example, the North was heavily industrialized due to it having plenty land for industries, labor readily available, capital in terms of investments, and people willing to start industries and businesses. Being a capitalist country, the government encouraged new businesses.
