At the end of the quotation, when the author says “Island” he refers to England. This excerpt refers to the fact that the English people took a great amount of land as its colonies between the 16th and 18th centuries. The British Empire and its Colonial Department was settled in England, which is and Island.
And the author states that it is absurd that a quite smaller island would govern a continent as big as Africa.
It was made by afircan slaves
Connecticut was originally established by the Dutch in the early 1630s. Eventually, the English drove the Dutch out and gained control of CT. It was officially founded in 1635 for political and religious freedom after a disagreement with the Massachusetts Bay colony.
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The Britain felt that they were superior to all other countries. France wanted what the British had and Germany wanted what the French had. This provoked fierce competition and each country worked to build up the strongest military. This led to an arms race between these three powers. Both Germany's and France's armies doubled in size between 1870 and 1914. The increase of military and naval rivalry led to the belief that a war was coming. Germany felt that through war, they could become a world power. As a result of the arms race, European powers were fully prepared for war when 1814 arrived.
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No cartoon but, basically, the Soviet Union collapsed from an economic standpoint, and could ill-afford to support the satellite countries surrounding its empire. Gorbachov, the Soviet premiere was pushing for more openness within the Soviet Union which created greater freedoms for the Russian population. It all became a growing snowball, which ended with the break-up of the USSR.
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