Answer:Peasants were unhappy with the depletion of royal coffers, two decades of poor harvests, drought, cattle disease and skyrocketing bread prices. Peasants had heavy taxes imposed on them while the Catholic Church was got off scot-free.
Explanation:
"There were 2 main reasons:
<span>The Second Industrial Revolution created the need for a workforce in new factories,so many people moved from the countryside to the cities to find jobs in these factories.The effects of the depression of 1873-1896,which spread to America,further encouraged people to go to the cities to find work. </span>
<span>There was a long economic depression in Europe from 1873-1896,which encouraged many Europeans to emigrate to America.Most of these arrived at major port cities,and found jobs in factories so stayed there.</span>
Answer: China had decided not to modernize and industrialize
Explanation:
The Sino-Japanese War (the first one, carried out between 1894 and 1895), was a conflict between Japan and China for the supremacy over Korea (which for a long time was the most important client state for China). This war meant the rise of Japan as a great world power by showing the weakness of the Chinese empire (specifically the Qing dynasty).
The war was formally declared on August 1, 1894, with favorable predictions for China by foreign observers, because China had more people to fight. However, the Japanese surprised to be better equipped and prepared, after having successfully modernized.
That is why after more than six months of uninterrupted successes by Japanese land and naval forces and the loss of the Weihaiwei port by China, the Qing government sued for peace in February 1895.
What is the message of the cartoon below?
(Mikhail Gorbachev is the man pictured holding the baby)
a
Mikhail Gorbachev was immature and weak
b
Glasnost helped bring unity and order in the Soviet Union
c
Gasnost had little impact on Gorbachev and the Soviet Union
d
Gorbachev's idea of glasnost hurt is ability to control the Soviet Union
e
Freedom and democracy are bad policies for all countries
E
Answer:
Another way that the two new superpowers differed was their economic policies (capitalism in the US, communism in the USSR) and their governmental systems (democratic republic in the US, totalitarianism in the USSR).
