Balkanization refers to the fragmentation of ethnic societies caused partly by the compartmentalization created by the mountainous geography.
That´s why ethnic diversity is the main social and political characteristic in this area. The Balkan nations emerged from many diverse ethnic roots from previous indigenous civilizations.
The british government tried to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the french and dutch west indies in order to increase prices on imported products to america.
(C) The tribal differences that caused the Apache and Navajo peoples to fight each other are not so different from the reasons European countries went to war hundreds of years later.
