During the Cultural Revolution, Mao closed down all schools and appealed to the youth to help spread his communist ideas. There were confrontations between Mao’s Red Guards and local police, thus threatening another civil war. The Red Guards started oppressing the intellectuals, who were believed to hold anti-communist views. After Mao, Deng Xiaoping came to power and started focusing on agriculture. He put an end to farmer co-ops. Farmers began cultivating land privately, and agricultural profits increased. Job opportunities increased and people started migrating from rural areas to cities. Deng appealed to the youth to go abroad for higher education. He encouraged foreign countries to do business in China. As a result, China’s economy started growing rapidly.
In 1914, the Philippines were under the control of the United States. Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the US replaced Spain as the colonial power and continued to engage in hostilities with the native Filipinos who wanted complete independence.
According to this National Public Radio program, one action taken by the South African <span>government to end the student protests in Soweto was to imprison people. </span>
The correct answer is A) Memphis and Adulis.
The two places that are connected by both a land route and a sea route were Memphis and Adulis.
We are talking about two important cities during ancient Egypt times. The map shows many important ancient Egyptian cities that represented the expanded territories and dominion of Egyptian Pharaohs. Memphis was the capital of lower Egypt. It was located north of what today is Cairo, the modern capital of Egypt. It was an important city located next to the Delta of the Nile River and was an important place for trade. Adulis was located in the Gulf of Zula, in the Red Sea. It was also a place for trade that was connected to Memphis by land and sea.
Developing countries might be more vulnerable to modern pandemics because they are poor and underdeveloped, this can lead to:
1) fewer supplies of medicines and vaccines
2) poor healthcare system
3) underdeveloped hospitals
4) Inadequate scientific programs to research the pandemics
5) poor living conditions helps spread disease quicker
6) A less educated population could be underinformed about the pandemic
