Autocracy. It comes from Autokrator, which in Greek means “self-rule” and “one who rules by himself”. Modern forms of autocracy are absolute monarchies (such as Swaziland) and dictatorships (such as North Korea)
it can either be a Monarchy - a government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right; the monarch may be either a sole absolute ruler or a sovereign - such as a king, queen or prince - with constitutionally limited authority.
or a dictatorship were one person rules the whole place and that one person holds all supreme power
Because they were in the middle of europe it was hard to focus on one front in general. So when they choose to focus on the Eastern Front they lost the battle on the western front
It is unlikely that a person is born with concepts already formed. It is mre likely that our preferences are result of nurture, how we are socialized, as opposed to nature which is inborn and subject to biology.
European merchants introduced maize, potatoes, tomatoes, and other crops to the Islamic empires. The state that had the most to offer to western merchants was the English.
