Answer: Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) was strongly critical of the economic system that prevailed in his era. Smith criticized what he called the "mercantile system" because it restricted trade and thus restricted economic growth. The mercantile system believed the wealth of the world was a fixed amount, measured primarily in gold and silver accumulated. The system promoted a nation selling its products abroad but not needing to buy from others, or imposing heavy tariffs if importing anything. Colonies were created to provide raw materials and resources to the mother country and a market for the mother country's products. Commerce was heavily controlled by the government through charters granted to specific trading companies.
Adam Smith countered by advocating a free market -- the opportunity individual businessmen and for all nations to increase their wealth by exchanging goods freely with one another according to what would become known as capitalist principles. We also speak of <em>"laissez-faire"</em> ("let go") as a term for this sort of free-market economy, set free from government controls. This term came from a French group of thinkers called the Physiocrats (meaning "rule by nature') who were working during the same 18th century era as Smith. The Physiocrats and Smith were in agreement about getting government out of the business of controlling business.
The Zealots were <u>a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism</u>, which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to <u>rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms</u>, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).
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As a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the US declared a “war on terror.”
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War on Terror is a campaign of the United States, supported by several members of NATO and other allies, with the declared aim of ending international terrorism, systematically eliminating the so-called terrorist groups, considered so by the United Nations, and all those suspected of belonging to these groups, and putting an end to the alleged sponsorship of terrorism by States. This international offensive was launched by the Bush Administration following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington DC, carried out by Al Qaeda.
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference (German: Kongokonferenz) or West Africa Conference (Westafrika-Konferenz), regulated European colonization<span> and trade in Africa during the New </span>Imperialism<span> period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.</span>
