"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.
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Many white Georgians in the region were afraid that successful businesses in Atlanta would end their agricultural industry
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United Arab Emirates, federation of seven emirates along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The federation formed in 1971 after British forces withdrew from the Persian Gulf. Since then the country has become a major center for oil, commerce, and finance in the region.
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In this fashion the odometer, called the roadometer, was invented in 1847 by the Mormon pioneers crossing the plains from Missiouri.
Explanation: The odometer was attached to a wagon wheel as the wagon trav- eled. It was developed by William Clayton and Orson Pratt, and built by carpenter Appleton Milo Harmo
The system that directly links an Islamic country's laws with the principles of the Quran is known as "Sharia Law," since this differs from laws that are removed from religious doctrine via the separation of church and state.
