The answer is Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God
The Great Awakening was a series of Christian revivals, so a sermon on sinners fits the timeframe.
Representatives of Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million.
Every nation must be inhabited, populated, in the state of absolute power within the territory, and can decide it's own policies
I would say that these terms illustrate that directions and words like "middle" are relative. For the Europeans China was far east from their point of view, but for China it was in the middle of what was relevant for them. It also shows that each place considers its own place as the center of their world: every other place will be seen through its relation with it.
