Answer and Explanation: "On a map, the Fertile Crescent looks like a crescent or quarter-moon. It extends from the Nile River on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in the south to the southern fringe of Turkey in the north. The Fertile Crescent is bounded on the west by the Mediterranean Sea and on the East by the Persian Gulf." - Fertile Crescent, History
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Nineteenth Century - Belgium had a colony in Africa: the belgian Congo. The Belgian leadership treated the native people of the Congo in an extremely brutal manner, most people were essentially slaves. Some workers were mutilated if they did not meet certain quotas, or if they "misbehaved".
Twentieth Century - France and Britain came to dominate several areas in the Middle East after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The French Mandate in particular, created the countries of Syria and the Lebanon.
The problem was that the borders of these countries were created without regard for ethnic and religious differences.
For this reason, modern Syria and Lebanon are very conflictive countries (Syria is in a civil war, Lebanon had a civil war from 1975 to 1990) because of that.
Twenty-first century - The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 under the false claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction hidden in its territory. While the U.S. army managed to depose the former dictator, Sadam Hussein, the invasion caused the deaths of thousands of American Soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and Iraq continues to be a unstable country up to this day.
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He moved to Saudi Arabia for spiritual reasons
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The major types of societies historically have been hunting-and-gathering, horticultural, pastoral, agricultural, industrial, and postindustrial. As societies developed and grew larger, they became more unequal in terms of gender and wealth and also more competitive and even warlike with other societies.
Andrew Carnegie was the one who used vertical integration to control steel production.
Vertical integration involves:
- Owning all the companies in the supply chain of a good including the <u>producers to the retailers </u>
- Being able to reduce production costs as a single company owns the various stages of production
Andre Carnegie founded Carnegie Steel which he used to acquire the suppliers of steel all the way to the sellers.
This allowed him to control the steel industry as he could overcharge competitors for steel whilst maintaining lower prices for his company.
In conclusion, Andrew Carnegie was able to us vertical integration to control the steel industry in a monopolistic like manner.
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