<span>political unrest was ongoing under corrupt despots with frequent military coups and violent uprisings
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some of notable despots was Batista and Machado, who seemingly back tracked from earlier promises to withhold democratic values. Batista first was elected president after a new constitution was promulgated in 1940,adhered to the presidential terms before returning to the scene again,failing and staging a coup.
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This depends somewhat on what you classify as "west," but generally speaking, yes, this is true, since it was in Ancient Athens that the first democracy was formed.
B is the answer to the question
<span>The Church music of the Renaissance was attacked by the
Council of Trent because of their use of secular music. Secular vocal music
contains a lot of quick changes in mood than what they consider as holy music.
The council also considered this type of music as an impurity to the Catholic
Church, and so purification of the Church was the justification for those
actions.</span>
Ionic column is the right answer. I just looked up a picture of it and it is definitely ionic. Hope this helps:)