Broadly speaking, Mercantilism was very good for European countries for a while but terrible for their colonies.
Mercantilism made people in the Old World VERY rich.
But, as a result of the imbalance, the relationship between the European countries and their colonies deteriorated making mercantilism good in the short term but bad in the long term.
The cold war affect Europe by dividing it between communist and Democratic countries, which essentially divided Europe into Western Europe and Eastern Europe. This divide caused tension, political unrest and economic difficulties.
The nationalists did little to win popular support, so thousands of nationalists soldiers deserted to the communists when china's economy collapsed allowing mao's communist red army to easily take control and defeat the nationalists in their long civil war <span />
The two parts of the continent start to move away from each other
causing rifting of the continental plate, the center or the rift becomes thinner, weaker and starts to sag. The basin area in the middle which has sagged is usually filled up with water, forming a sea. (e.g. the red sea)
The thinner plate in the center then becomes oceanic crust from this, and in the center a new constructive plate boundary is formed. <span>The plates continue to move apart from one another and magma erupts from the constructive/divergent plate boundary, producing new oceanic crust formed mainly of basalt.</span>
The constitution. The Supreme Court was originally made to rule on the constitutionality of decisions made by state courts
