Caesar Augustus revivied Romes strength and wealth and created the position of emperor making Rome officially an empire. Julius Caesar's adopted son made emperors after the Republic more despotic. Rome however still experienced peace through what is called the pax Romana or roman peace. Its economic and military increased. For 200 years the empire remained great vigor amd began military expanison.
The cultural borrowing is defined as an “imitation” of actions or habits between two or more social groups through contact, or information exposure.
In this passage of Wang Kŏn, we can appreciate his opinion about the national identity. Over the years, Corea was under the influence of countries such as China that is why it was customary to follow its models as a reference in many fields (economic, institutional, political, etc.). Then arose the Wang' statement, who said this behavior was illogical because their situation was very different, his nation has other factors such as geographical location and type of population that make unjustified to pretend to do the same as other cultures.
The nations in the southern and eastern part of the African continent have economies that are mostly reliant on the mining. They have numerous valuable metals, as well as diamonds, and coal. In order to be able to extract them and the mining to take place, the terrain has to be cleared, and usually it is the forests that are having the worst of it, as large portions of them are totally destroyed.
While this may be good for the economies of these nations on the short run, on the long run, the destruction of the forests can be fatal for them. The reason for that is that the metals, diamonds, coal, are non-renewable resources, they are limited, and once their reserves end, these nations will find themselves in a situation where they would have totally destroyed environment and no mining activities to run their economy.
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