Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy’s Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the widespread use of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) derived from Latin, the modern Western alphabet and calendar and the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion. After 450 years as a republic, Rome became an empire in the wake of Julius Caesar’s rise and fall in the first century B.C. The long and triumphant reign of its first emperor, Augustus, began a golden age of peace and prosperity; by contrast, the empire’s decline and fall by the fifth century A.D. was one of the most dramatic implosions in the history of human civilization.
Hernando Cortes was able to perform the conquest of the Aztecs mainly because of the support (tactical and military) from some of tribes that were under the rule of the Aztecs. Because multiple tribes were not happy by being under the rule of the Aztecs and even less pleased by how were they treated by them, they saw a chance to liberate themselves when the Spanish arrived, so they helped them in the conquest. Unfortunately for the local tribes, it turned out that they did not gained liberation, but instead were just under the rule of another force once the Aztec Empire fell and the Spanish one took over.
I am not sure what the others thought about it (for example Kahlo and Rivera were communists, so they likely believed it too!)
but a very good answer is <span>B. David Alfaro Siqueiros, since he was very opened about this view, stating it many times. </span>
Answer: The windows of many Jewish businesses were broken.
Explanation/context:
In November, 1938, there was rampant destruction of Jewish-owned businesses and violence against Jews. This occurred on the night of November 9 going on into November 10, 1938, and was called "<em>Kristallnacht,</em>" or "The Night of Broken Glass." It was public violence by masses of people, not a specific campaign ordered by the Nazi regime. However, Nazi officials did tell police and firefighters to do nothing -- to let the violence and destruction occur. The next day, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, said that this sort of eruption against the Jews was natural and understandable. He said: "It is an intolerable state of affairs that within our borders and for all these years hundreds of thousands of Jews still control whole streets of shops, populate our recreation spots and, as foreign apartment owners, pocket the money of German tenants, while their racial comrades abroad agitate for war against Germany."
In the days after <em>Kristallnacht, </em>the Nazi government said that the Jewish community itself was responsible for all the damage and destruction, and imposed enormous fines against the Jewish community. They also arrested more than 30,000 Jewish men and sent them to concentration camps which were built to incarcerate Jews and any others that the Nazis perceived to be enemies of the German state.
