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Afghanistan lies across ancient trade and invasion routes from central asia into India. The geographic position has been the greatest influence on its history and culture.
They differed mostly <span>in their relationships with the American Indians they encountered. The French built positive relations with the locals and traded with them which helped them get fur and help with hunting. The Spaniards were conquerors and were all about finding gold and Spreading Christianity and they killed and enslaved numerous people while doing it and didn't care about the locals.</span>
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The Pullman strike ended with widespread violence and the President at the time (Grover Cleveland) sent out the army to stop the strikes from obstructing the trains from running. The Pullman Strike was a boycott which shut down much of the passenger and freight trains west of Detroit because of reduction wages. Many of these workers were laid off and had their wages lowered, but did not have their rent lowered which was essentially unfair, as they all lived in towns for train workers.
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
noun: Humanism
(among some contemporary writers) a system of thought criticized as being centered on the notion of the rational, autonomous self and ignoring the unintegrated and conditioned nature of the individual.