Answer:
Americans had a number of reasons to fear communism in the 1950s. First, the Soviets had demonstrated in 1949 that they had a nuclear capacity. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fresh in Americans' minds, leading the US to fear the Soviets would launch a nuclear war with a mutually assured destruction that would destroy both countries.
Explanation:
1. They won the support and loyalty of the noble families, whether through conciliatory gestures or by intimidation.
2. They levied taxes to ensure enough revenue during both war and peace and also so that they had to depend less on popular support
3. They established strong ties with the church, which kept the masses compliant
4. They constructed forts and other military structures to establish a good military presence in their monarchies
The early civilizations lacked adequate means to obtain knowledge about the human brain. Their assumptions about the inner workings of the mind, therefore, were not accurate. Early views on the function of the brain<span> regarded it to be a form of "cranial stuffing" of sorts. In ancient Egypt, from the late </span>Middle Kingdom<span> onwards, in preparation for mummification, the brain was regularly removed, for it was the </span>heart<span> that was assumed to be the seat of intelligence. According to </span>Herodotus<span>, during the first step of mummification: "The most perfect practice is to extract as much of the brain as possible with an iron hook, and what the hook cannot reach is mixed with drugs." Over the next five thousand years, this view came to be reversed; the brain is now known to be the seat of intelligence, although colloquial variations of the former remain as in "memorizing something by heart".</span>
