Answer: “Birth of a Nation”—D. W. Griffith’s disgustingly racist yet titanically original 1915 feature—back to the fore. The movie, set mainly in a South Carolina town before and after the Civil War, depicts slavery in a halcyon light, presents blacks as good for little but subservient labor, and shows them, during Reconstruction, to have been goaded by the Radical Republicans into asserting an abusive dominion over Southern whites. It depicts freedmen as interested, above all, in intermarriage, indulging in legally sanctioned excess and vengeful violence mainly to coerce white women into sexual relations. It shows Southern whites forming the Ku Klux Klan to defend themselves against such abominations and to spur the “Aryan” cause overall. The movie asserts that the white-sheet-clad death squad served justice summarily and that, by denying blacks the right to vote and keeping them generally apart and subordinate, it restored order and civilization to the South.
“Birth of a Nation,” which runs more than three hours, was sold as a sensation and became one; it was shown at gala screenings, with expensive tickets. It was also the subject of protest by civil-rights organizations and critiques by clergymen and editorialists, and for good reason: “Birth of a Nation” proved horrifically effective at sparking violence against blacks in many cities. Given these circumstances, it’s hard to understand why Griffith’s film merits anything but a place in the dustbin of history, as an abomination worthy solely of autopsy in the study of social and aesthetic pathology.
D. Judges would be your answer. This is because of the twelve tribes of Israel.
- It created a demand for new raw materials which were often scarce in industrialized countries, thus leading many European nations to build colonies and expand their empires in other continents.
- Mass producing of products, enabling its populace greater mobility in commerce, trade, war, education, etc.
- It assured Western economic and military ascendancy
<span>The Russian architecture followed a tradition that was established
in the Eastern Slavic state of Kievan Rus’. Kievan Rus’ were influenced by
mixtures of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russian cultures (including architecture).
Mixes of Christianity, Byzantine architecture, and Eastern orthodox greatly influenced
monumental architectures of the medieval state of Kievan Rus’. After the fall
of Kiev, this type of architectural tradition made its way to different
principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal, Novgorod, Tsardom states, Russian Empire,
Soviet Union, and the modern Russian Federation. </span>
