The position of a place in relation to other places is generally called its "location", since it is only possible to find the location of something by using other locations as "points of reference".
The Industrial Revolution led Europeans to have better military weapons and this allowed small European armies to defeat larger African and Asian forcer when invading territory. This made possible the colonization of the African continent.
The main causes of Shays' Rebellion all had to do with anger of tax and debt collection, which showed that the early United States had a very hard time exerting power over the individual states and the populations of these states.
The biggest criticism of the electoral college is that the system is inherently oligarchic. The system is set up so that the Electorates (those who vote for the president) can be essentially anyone. This is what makes up a Representative Republic and not a Direct Democracy. In our republic, we choose who gets to vote for our president, in other words, you chose a <u>representative</u>. In a direct democracy, you chose for your president <u>directly</u>
