In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the natio
n and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain!—Thomas Paine Thomas Paine criticizes the king for
A. destroying the society with war and waste
B. Being dishonest in all his political dealings
C. How little money he puts into government
D giving away land to foreign governments
Muslim scholars considered astronomy as one of the mathematical sciences. Muslims came across ancient astronomical manuscripts and translated them into Arabic. They then undertook observations to verify the calculations in these scientific works.
The nation that has the LEAST amount of democracy, civil liberties, and personal freedoms is shown on this map in red. Libya has been a military dictatorship since Muammar al-Qadhafi seized power in the country in 1969. In comparison, Morocco (yellow), Tunisia (green), and Algeria (blue) all have democratic governments.
The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, which created a Soviet Russia with a profoundly different economic and ideological state to the capitalist and democratic West.
The philosophers played an important role in the French revolution. They inspired the common mass of France with their revolutionary ideas and prepared them to fight against injustices. They did not believe in the doctrine of the divine and the absolute right of the monarch.
