<span>The Berlin Conference set down rules for dividing up Africa. This meant that the European colonizers established national borders that grouped certain African ethnic groups together. This meant that despite ethnic groups being historical enemies, they were now being forced to live within the same boundaries.
Ex: German & Belgian colonial governments aggravated the historically tense relations between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in present-day Rwanda and Burundi. The ethnic violence between these two groups resulted in a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people (as we saw in the movie Hotel Rwanda).</span>
Answer:
It simply means that, they<em> lost out greatly in all things</em> despite the fact that they were not killed by shells and bullets.
Explanation:
The word ''<em>destroyed</em> by the war'' could be likened to the fact that the men in question were total humbled by the loss of <em>material assets</em> like houses, <em>means of livelihood</em>, <em>loss of relations and personal wealth</em> (money) occasioned by the war. A situation where someone that was living comfortably was reduced to penury.
When soldiers went away to war their jobs needed to be replaced to keep the economy stable, women were able to take this opportunity and work in factories for munitions and sewing and many other things, this was a big step in the right direction to gender equality, after WW1 people started to change their attitude and realised that women can work and can do just as good as men in some countries they were given the vote and more opportunities opened for women in different industries and they were able to make a living for themselves instead of being reliant on a husband to get money for their whole family
He took all power, kept control of nobles, divided China into districts ruled by appointed officials, and organized a tax system.
