By "commonwealth" it must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less.
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Unlike the Byzantine Empire there was no single entity that could be called 'Western Europe'.
Commonalities:
However, there was one significant common trait among them. Both were seen as Christian lands where the Church held considerable power.
Both the cultures were extremely autocratic and theocratic in nature. The royal families held political power, while the church had religious influence among the people.
The society also had a fixed hierarchy the aristocrats at the top, followed by business people and soldiers and eventually the serfs who worked on the lands of the gentry.
The Zimmermann Note was first suspected of being a forgery by the British, to make the Americans think that Germany wanted to cause war for the USA, and thus pushing the Americans to help the British. However, while the USA government officials were still debating whether this was a genuine note, the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann himself, admitted the note was genuine.
There would have been no reason for Zimmermann to falsely claim that this note was true, as this admission would have caused America to indeed join the war against the Germans.
A) a radical feminist group founded in 1969 in New York City.
