Military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait,
In reality the [peace] policy rested on the belief that Americans had the right to dispossess Native peoples of their lands, take away freedoms, and send them to reservations, where missionaries would teach them how to farm, read and write, wear Euro-American clothing, and embrace Christianity. If Indians refused to move to reservations, they would be forced off their homelands by soldiers.
God's covenant with Abraham, according to Israelite belief, was to make
Abraham a truly great nation, bless Abraham and his name, and bring hell
upon anyone who curses him. He blessed anyone who is linked to Abraham.
Any of Abraham's descendants were to be given the land from the River
Nile to Euphrates, and this land was to be referred to as the Promised
land, or the Land of Israel. Abraham was also to be made the father of
nations, and the whole land of Canaan was to be given to them. The sign
of this promise to Abraham and his male descendants is known as the brit
milah, and refers to the practice of male circumcision in the Jewish
religion.
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<span> It survived the </span>fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire<span> in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the </span>Ottoman Turks in 1453. But why did it survive? <span>The eastern half of the Roman Empire was far less vulnerable to external attack, due to its geographic location. With Constantinople located on a strait, it was extremely difficult to breach the capital’s defenses; also, the eastern empire had a much shorter common frontier with Europe. It also benefited greatly from a stronger administrative center and internal political stability, as well as great wealth. The eastern emperors were able to exert more control over the empire’s economic resources and more effectively muster sufficient manpower to combat invasion. </span>
The planter class were able to get small farmers to follow them given that they exercised a profound and disproportionate amount of social, economic, and political economic influence in southern society. Small farmer typically owns a few slaves. It was easy to convince the their interests were aligned
