Enlightened despots held that royal power emanated not from divine right but from social contract whereby a despot was entrusted with the power to govern in lieu of any other governments.
<span>A. the Platt Amendment was rescinded.</span>
Europeans desired a direct sea route to Asia, because the land trade routes were expensive and dangerous
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The second intifada was a wave of violence that began on September 28, 2000 between Palestinian Arabs and Israelis. Although the basic pattern of conflict is similar to that in the First Intifada, this one was with much greater intensity. Namely, the Second Intifada included Arabs living in the narrower territory of Israel to a much greater extent, but they were also victims of Palestinian attacks several times. Unlike the 1987 violence campaign, the Palestinians had a large arsenal of personal weapons at their disposal, as the security forces to which the Palestinian side was entitled under the peace agreement were armed and some of them eventually merged with local Palestinian militias.
