<span>He
was a dictator. Many people died under
his rule and he committed many human rights abuses. He used chemical weapons against the Kurds
and invaded Kuwait that led to the First Gulf War. Later he fought with the U.S. again and was
captured, tried and executed.</span>
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B. contained many Greek-speaking regions.
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The Mauryan Empire substituted the former Magadha Kingdom to assert dominance over large parts of northern India. At its height, the empire stretched across modern Iran in the west to the Gangetic plains of India in East and covers almost the entire subcontinent. Chandragupta Maurya acquired territories from the Greek general of Alexander named Seleucus Nikator in exchange for Indian elephants. The ambassador of Seleucus Nikator, Megasthenes who lived at the court of Maurya in Pataliputra. The communication channels also imply the fact that the Mauryan kingdom was connected to the western Greek world.
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In just 3 years (1348 to 1350) the Black Death destroyed a third of England's population. Such a dramatic drop in population gave peasants real economic power for the first time NATIONAL ARCHIVES; this improved the economic position of manorial tenants and labourers in the countryside
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Status is social ranking. Feudalism was a political system in which nobles were granted the use of land that legally belonged to the king. In return, the nobles agreed to give their loyalty and military services to the king.
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Totalitarianism is a political ideology that seeks total control of all aspects of life by a powerful state.
The origins of totalitarianism can be traced back to 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini rose to power and adopted an ideology named "Fascism". Fascism sought total state control in order to advance a particular view for Italy.
Stalin's Soviet Union was a totalitarian communist state because he had control over every aspect of life. The economy was planned, the media was censored, and people could not criticize the state.
Hitler's Germany was a totalitarian state because nazism also sought total state control in order to further Hitler's goals for Germany: territorial expansion, and the extermination of minorities (jews, roma, slavs, homosexuals, the disabled, etc).
Japan was also a totalitarian state until its defeat in the second world war. The Emperor was all powerful, and had total control over national life, and Japan's policy during the era was to colonize most of East Asia in order to expand Japanese influence.
