Intelligent(he had greata great ability to memorise things ), ambitious, reckless (if you think of his will to fight against the russian during one of the coldest winters of the 19th century unprepared)
A. George Washington created the precedent known as isolationism
The authors mean that you can't discriminate against someone because of the color of their skin or the problems they may have.
I believe the answer is: Core
A nations is considered as a core of world's economic system if every economic decisions that made by that country would most likely set up the economic trend for the rest of the world. Other example of nations that considered as a 'core' are: England, China, Russia, and Germany