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1. Trouble organizing a government system due to a lack of self-governing experience.
2. Being susceptible to coups and rebellions because of a lack of a strong, organized military.
3. Economic reliance on their parent countries, which caused their economies to be dependent on that of another country's.
4. Exploitation by other nations politically and economically, oftentimes through established monopolies.
5. Difficulties with establishing their native cultures, as they were under the influence of the European nations for so long.
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The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas.
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Walking Purchase, (Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century.
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Apparently aimed at visiting American comedian Bob Hope, a time bomb set by Viet Cong terrorists exploded at Brinks, a U.S. Army officers club in Saigon, killing two Americans and wounding 50 others.Three years later, a captured memorandum was located that had criticized the terrorists for the fact that "The bomb exploded 10 minutes before the set time. Shortly after the explosion the cars of the Bob Hope entertainment group arrived. If the bomb exploded at the scheduled time, it might have killed an additional number of guests who came to see the entertainment."
Hope was making his first Christmas visit to South Vietnam, and he and his 60-member troupe entertained 1,200 servicemen at the Bien Hoa Air Base. He opened by joking, "Hello, advisers. Here I am in Bien Hoa... which is Vietnamese for 'Duck!!'". Referring to his surroundings as "Sniper Valley", he said, "As I flew in today, they gave us a 21-gun salute... Three of them were ours."
Unemployed electronics engineer Tom Osborne completed the prototype of the first desktop electronic calculator after more than a year of work at his home workshop, then spent another six months trying to find a buyer for his "Green Machine" (so called because he constructed the prototype casing from balsa wood painted green). After more than 30 rejections, he was able to sell the invention to the Hewlett-Packard company in Palo Alto, California.
Answer: Four geological ages.
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he development of the country is divided into four geological ages, prehistoric or Precambrian, ancient or Palaeozoic, Middle Ages Mesozoic, and New Age Cenozoic.
- The Precambrian period begins after the formation of the Earth's crust and lasts about 4 billion years, and it is the oldest and most extended period of Earth's history.
- The beginning of the old age was marked by intense volcanic activity and the Ice Age.
- The Middle Ages were the period of the dinosaurs who were the dominant beings of that period.
- The new age, or the age of mammals, begins with the change of the warm and cold periods and continues to this day.
