Unfortunately, there are still many regions in the world that need aid in order to be able to develop themselves or even exist. Some regions like the Pacific, with its small island nations, constantly receives foreign aid, as these nations do not have the resources to sustain themselves. Other regions, like sub-Saharan Africa, are very poor, so there's constantly big foreign aid towards it, in order just to help the people to survive. Some regions, like the Balkan Peninsula, are in not such a terrible conditions, but in general the nations are not powerful economically, so the developed nations very often provide aid for them in order to improve their infrastructure in order to be able to develop further.
If you mean the middle ages the it didn't really grant any freedom. People were kept simple minded and growth was not praised and learning for only for the rich (nobility) and church members. You were considered an outcast if you didn't go to church.
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The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions. Over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native American Indians and sold to non-natives.
It would be a historical timeline because of the way the information is put.