The countries that attended the conference were: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, the German Empire, Italy, Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, the Russian Empire, Spain, Sweden-Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America who had a special right to accept or decline the terms of the deal and the participation in the deal.
The effects of the conference were mostly in regards to the African Continent. They wanted to find a way to spread their empires and gain strength while not fighting each other, so they decided to cut Africa up into smaller pieces and divide it among themselves. The result was that 90% of African territory was taken by various European powers.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
It is correct to say that we live in a world in which the global circulation of people, information, goods, and bacteria is the danger of emerging viruses.
The medieval system of dealing with the Black Death compared with ours in that it created so much fear due to misinformation and the lack of proper solutions against the Bubonic Plague. People feared the unknown and when they saw the effects of the plague, they locked in their houses and avoided any exterior contact.
Sounds similar? Well, pretty close with what we are witnessing today with so much misinformation, drama in the way news is reported, and the lack of a true solution to cure the current pandemic.
The Bubonic Plague or Black Death devastated many European nations in the 1300s. A dramatic decline of the population in Europe in the 1300s was caused by the Bubonic Plague.
The plague arrived in Europe in 1347 through the Sicilian port of Messina. Historians considered that the Bubonic Plague killed 20 million people in Europe. The sailors that navigated the trade routes of the time got the disease in Asia. In 1340, the plague had struck nations such as China, Egypt, Syria, India, and Persia.
Seminole Wars, (1817–18, 1835–42, 1855–58), three conflicts between the United States and the Seminole Indians of Florida in the period before the American Civil War, that ultimately resulted in the opening of the Seminole’s desirable land for white exploitation and settlement.
The First Seminole War (1817–18) began over attempts by U.S. authorities to recapture runaway black slaves living among Seminole bands. Under General Andrew Jackson, U.S. military forces invaded the area, scattering the villagers, burning their towns, and seizing Spanish-held Pensacola and St. Marks. As a result, in 1819 Spain was induced to cede its Florida territory under the terms of the Transcontinental Treaty.
The Second Seminole War (1835–42) followed the refusal of most Seminoles to abandon the reservation that had been specifically established for them north of Lake Okeechobee and to relocate west of the Mississippi River. Whites coveted this land and sought to oust the Seminoles under the Indian Removal Act. Led by their dynamic chief Osceola (q.v.), the Seminole warriors hid their families in the Everglades and fought vigorously to defend their homeland, using guerrilla tactics. As many as 2,000 U.S. soldiers were killed in this prolonged fighting, which cost the government between $40,000,000 and $60,000,000. Only after Osceola’s capture while parleying under a flag of truce did Indian resistance decline. With peace, most Seminoles agreed to emigrate.
The Third Seminole War (1855–58) resulted from renewed efforts to track down the Seminole remnant remaining in Florida. It caused little bloodshed and ended with the United States paying the most resistant band of refugees to go West.
