The West Indies was what the islands are sometimes called to this day, this came from the (false) belief that Columbus has discovered Asia/India.
Answer:
Cleopatra. The last scion of the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for nearly 300 years, Cleopatra secured her position—and her kingdom's independence—through her influence over Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, some of the most powerful Western men of the time.
Explanation:
Here's the answers in order:
- people's rights
- natural law
- social contract
So the full paragraph would read: Many philosophers wrote down their philosophies about the government and people's rights. A number of philosophers published books on the subject. They applied the idea of natural law to social and political analysis. Thomas Hobbes wrote <em>Leviathan</em>, a book about social structure and government. He wrote about the social contract, an agreement in which the people exchanged some of their individual freedoms for the government’s protection.
Explanation:
A century after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, some 90% of indigenous Americans had perished from "wave after wave of disease", along with mass slavery and war, in what researchers have described as the "great dying".
