<span>Non-Western
nations were in a weak state and Western powers had strong economies,
governments, and armed forces and they had superior technology.
People opposed it through wars of resistance and nationalist movements and by adopting Western technologies and economic reforms.</span>
Enlightenment thinkers, most notably John Locke, influenced ideas of the framers of the United States Constitution. Ideas such as unalienable individual rights, separation of powers and popular sovereignty are all ideas influenced by Enlightenment thinkers and ideas.
This is what I think it is:
<span>A point or place in relation to another point or place. </span>
