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Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist British historian, wrote a book called The Short Twentieth Century. The 20th Century had been shorter than other centuries because it had begun in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and terminated of course early in November 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The problem however, and of course we historians we like problems, is that everybody knew what we had left behind with the fall of the wall, but nobody knew what we were heading towards. As Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, put it, “this was a system [the Cold War], this was a system under which we had lived quite happily for 40 years.” Or as Adam Michnik, again my Polish solidarity intellectual, put it “The worst thing about communism is what comes afterwards.” While our populations were in jubilation in front of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American author, at the time had a bestseller called the Bonfire of the Vanities and a British MP that I knew at the time famously rephrased that as the ‘bonfire of the certainties.’ All of the reference points with which we’d lived for half a century and which had organized our diplomacy, our military strategy, our ideology, were like as many props that were suddenly pulled from us.
Pro Slavery- Their thoughts- we white folks are richer and better than these poor "blacks" we should be in control of them, they can help us take care of crops and be our slaves, it will make life easier.
Anti Slavery- it's unconstitutional, and wrong for people to treat people this way.
I am 100% against slavery i just wanted to put both sides of an argument.
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A. Italy’s location on the Mediterranean between Western Europe the Byzantine empire and Arab world made it a crossroads of trade and culture.
Explanation:
Italy had an excellent location and excellent geography when it comes to the development of trade. The reason for this is that the Italian city-state were situated on a peninsula in between Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Arab world, thus in the middle of the trade. Having excellent ports, these city-states used the opportunity and developed very well, becoming very wealthy and powerful, with the likes of Venice and Genoa becoming real powerhouses.
