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Mayan culture refers to that of a Mesoamerican civilization that stood out over 18 centuries in numerous socio-cultural aspects such as its hieroglyphic writing, one of the few fully developed writing systems of the pre-Columbian American continent, its art, architecture and its remarkable numbering systems, as well as astronomy, mathematics and understanding of ecology. It was developed in the region that covers the southeast of Mexico, corresponding to the states of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo and the eastern part of Chiapas, as well as in most of the territory of Guatemala, in Belize, the western part of Honduras and in El Salvador.
<h2>Answer: The power of the [Ottoman] Empire was waning [fading] by 1683 when the second and last attempt was made to conquer Vienna. It failed. Without the conquest of Europe and the acquisition of significant new wealth, the Empire lost momentum and went into a slow decline.
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</h2><h2>Several other factors contributed to the [Ottoman] Empire’s decline:
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</h2><h2>• Competition from trade from the Americas
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</h2><h2>• Competition from cheap products from India and the Far East
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</h2><h2>• Development of other trade routes
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</h2><h2>• Rising unemployment within the Empire
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</h2><h2>• Ottoman Empire became less centralized, and central control weakened
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</h2><h2>• Sultans being less severe in maintaining rigorous standards of integrity in the administration of the Empire
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</h2><h2>• Sultans becoming less sensitive to public opinion
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A direct democracy is a form of government where the citizens have a direct say in the creation of laws and issues that affect them.
Representative democracy is a form of government where its citizens vote for a representative to represent them in Congress or the Senate
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1. The invention of the compass was a major event for navigation. It helped European sailors and explorers to sail in a more accurate way in the 14th, 15th centuries.
2. The arrival of Columbus in 1492 gave Europe extraordinary opportunities of economic and territorial expansion by conquest of new lands, it allowed access to huge wealth and Columbus´ voyages opened the doors to improved geographical knowledge. The European conquest and colonization of the New World incorporated a whole new continent to the vision of Europe and Asia - the known world then plus Africa -, it exapnded the limits of the known Earth, and got it into the orbit of Western culture.
3. The birth, development and expansion of numerous Evangelical churches around the world is a significant heritage of our contemporary society that finds its origins in the Protestant Reformation of 1517.
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The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. ... For example, the nascent civil rights movement and the crusade against communism at home and abroad exposed the underlying divisions in American society.
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