With Islam’s warriors, traders, and scholars crossing into Europe, with Chinese influences taking deeper root in East Asia, and with Christendom extending itself across Europe, religion and empire once again intertwined to serve as the social foundation across much of Afro-Eurasia.
It gave the colonists a chance to govern themselves. The House of Burgesses was after all, the first legislative assembly.
In 1979 Mother Theresa was given a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor.
The first colony was the United States
Regiment, in most armies, a body of troops headed by a colonel and organized for tactical control into companies, battalions, or squadrons.
