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Ultimately the Protestant Reformation led to modern democracy, skepticism, capitalism, individualism, civil rights, and many of the modern values we cherish today. The Protestant Reformation increased literacy throughout Europe and ignited a renewed passion for education.
<span>A factor hindering the German invasion of Russia was Russia's incredibly large territory and brutally cold winters, since this made it nearly impossible for the Germans to maintain forces inland. </span>
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Nineteenth Century - Belgium had a colony in Africa: the belgian Congo. The Belgian leadership treated the native people of the Congo in an extremely brutal manner, most people were essentially slaves. Some workers were mutilated if they did not meet certain quotas, or if they "misbehaved".
Twentieth Century - France and Britain came to dominate several areas in the Middle East after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The French Mandate in particular, created the countries of Syria and the Lebanon.
The problem was that the borders of these countries were created without regard for ethnic and religious differences.
For this reason, modern Syria and Lebanon are very conflictive countries (Syria is in a civil war, Lebanon had a civil war from 1975 to 1990) because of that.
Twenty-first century - The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 under the false claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction hidden in its territory. While the U.S. army managed to depose the former dictator, Sadam Hussein, the invasion caused the deaths of thousands of American Soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and Iraq continues to be a unstable country up to this day.
The Progressivism accomplish the populist agenda by including not only the political leaders but also academic people, educators, large farmers, business men and both women and black activists. All these groups shared a basic beliefs to solve the many social, economic and political problems that faced the rapidly modernizing nation by then.
Jamestown was the first American Colony, the British settled there 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth - Massachusetts. Jamestown colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, because of that a group of investors wanted to profit - search for wealth - then when they settled in the Colony, they started to plant tobacco around 1613.
The tobacco industry pushed the growth of the Virginia colony because it’s growth demanded a lot of hand-workers.
For the religion, the investors of the Virginia Company were members of the Church of England - Protestantism - Therefore, Protestantism was the religion in Jamestown and became the prominent religion in Virginia.