It’s hard to imagine the United States without a large central government. Americans often forget that the Founders disagreed vehemently regarding the size/form/structure that our new governement should take. These disagreements first resulted in factions (Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists) and eventually led to the development of America’s first political parties.
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Keep this little phrase in mind: <u>gold, glory, and God.</u> In that order. The reason the Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand sponsored Columbus was
- <u>gold.</u> They wanted to get rich off of gold, which would enable them to increase their wealth and trading power as per the economic system of mercantilism.
- <u>glory.</u> They wanted their names to be famous. Two of the islands that Columbus saw were named after the two rulers (Isabela Island and Fernandina).
- <u>God.</u> They were highly Catholic (remember the Spanish Inquisition?) and they wanted to spread that, in theory, to the primitive natives.
The name of the little known city that was the sixth largest in the world in the past is Teotihuacan.
It was a city located in a sub valley of the valley of mexico and has been named as UNESCO's world heritage since 1987.
Socialism,Socialism is like Communism ,alls for putting the major means of production n the hands of the people,either directly or through the government.Socialists differ from Communists in that they do not believe that the workers will overthrow Capitalists suddenly and violently.