Yes, because if they didn't work you had to wait a year to grow more crops.
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George Washington would be thrilled that nearly 250 years later the United States has maintained the government as it was formulated by the Founding Fathers.
He would be dazzled by the gestalt: 1. The most powerful nation in the world.
2. The expansion of voting rights and they're being balanced by the electoral system.
3. His venerated status.
4. Washington would be overwhelmed and bewildered by the degree of entanglements with foreign countries.
5. Pleased by our ties with Great Britain and pleased that it is reliant upon us for its security.
6. The enormous size of the country would please him greatly as he had an enormous appetite for the acquisition of land.
It would take him a very long time to drink in how grand a country it is in a myriad of ways. For Washington, the above reactions would overshadow and cushion any observations on our serious deficiencies.
Imperialism was imposed by the Europeans as they colonized Sub-Saharan Africa. For hundreds of years the Europeans traded gold and salt with huge trading empires that had developed in Africa.
