Mecca was an important City for Arabs on the Arabian Peninsula before Islam because it was A) A Major Port City.
Authoritarian Regimes. ... One ruler or a small group of leaders have the real power in authoritarian political systems. Authoritarian governments may hold elections and they may have contact with their citizens, but citizens do not have any voice in how they are ruled.
What did President Carter fail to do?
<h2>-- free Americans taken hostage by Iran</h2>
President Jimmy Carter’s failure to get the hostages back ruined his re-election chance in 1980. We might also note that the taking of the hostages was itself an action aimed at President Carter. The Iranian Revolution had ousted the shah of Iran, a US-backed leader. The former shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, living in exile in Mexico, was found to have cancer, President Carter allowed him to come to the United States for treatment. This enraged the Iranians, who thought that the US was perhaps trying to bring the shah back to power. That's when the hostages were taken.
The statement that best characterizes education in European society before the Renaissance would be that "<span>Education was reserved predominately for leaders of the Church," since this was during a time when religion and the Church in general reigned supreme in most territories. </span>
