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The rise of nationalism
The desire for national self-rule
The desire to unify territories
Old Major is the allegorical figure for Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin, depending on your interpretation of the text. Both men stood for basically the same thing, and these things was what Orwell was exploring in the novel.
More food= more people, more people means you need more food, which means you get people to make more food, which attracts more people, etc, etc.
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The Catholic Church was slow to respond systematically to the theological and publicity innovations of Luther and the other reformers. The Council of Trent, which met off and on from 1545 through 1563, articulated the Church’s answer to the problems that triggered the Reformation and to the reformers themselves.
The Catholic Church of the Counter-Reformation era grew more spiritual, more literate and more educated. New religious orders, notably the Jesuits, combined rigorous spirituality with a globally minded intellectualism, while mystics such as Teresa of Avila injected new passion into the older orders. Inquisitions, both in Spain and in Rome, were reorganized to fight the threat of Protestant heresy.