It is the process which provides private individuals and opportunity to influence piblic decisions and to be a component of the democraric decision making process
In the short term, the voyages led to the destruction of the natives of the lands that Columbus found. Some of them were killed outright. Others were enslaved. Many died of diseases brought by the Europeans.
It's the second one that's correct...
He wanted to create satellite states.
These were states that were independent in a fake way. They were independent from the Soviet Union but were all pro-soviet and had puppet governments that had to obey the Soviet Union. It was presented as if communism was their own choice and since they weren't officially a part of the union, they were a buffer towards the west.
