“Tolerance, as we define it, refers to the skills we need to live together peacefully. In times of peace, people have a chance to prosper socially, economically and emotionally. Tolerance creates a society in which people can feel valued and respected, and in which there is room for every person, each with their own ideas, thoughts and dreams. This is why we believe tolerance is important: because it is an essential aspect of a healthy, livable society. In fact, it is the only way in which a country as diverse as Lebanon (politically, religiously, economically) can function and use each and every difference to make its people thrive rather than suffer.”
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I think it was to convince people to reject gradual emancipation and demand the complete and immediate abolition of slavery.
The geographic feature that most directly influenced the development of Greek city-states was 2. its mountainous terrain. Greece is a series of island separated by sea and marked with numerous mountains. These mountains kept the region from ever becoming completely unified in ancient times because of the difficulty it took to get from point A to point B. Instead, these mountains resulted in the formation of city-states, smaller political units centered around a single city but sharing a culture similar to other city-states in the area. They were connected by culture rather than politics.
After the declaration of independence, the United States did not stop growing. Immigration was incessant at the same time that the discovery of gold, the territorial annexation and the relatively easy access to the land made possible an advance towards the west. The population expanded throughout the territory: the waterways also contributed to this.
At the beginning of the 19th century, what in the history of the United States is known as the "march towards the west, the colonization of the agricultural Midwest by the so-called farmers who were family production units but who were absolutely involved in a capitalist economy, that is, that they were specialized producers that produced for the market.
