The 15th right to due process, right for a free trail
China had always tried to keep foreign influence out of China but from my own knowledge, the Boxer Rebellion, of which the main objective was driving out Western (as well as Japanese) Imperial powers. The Eight-Nation alliance, comprised Japan<span>, </span>Russia<span>, the </span>British Empire<span>, </span>France<span>, the </span>United States<span>, </span>Germany, Italy<span> and </span>Austria-Hungary, was created in order to protect the trade ports of which are essentially European colonies (since European laws only applied in those areas and often stationed some number of troops) acquired through two Opium wars and a collection of (dubbed) "Unequal treaties" (which they really were, for example, a portion of Shanghai was handed over to the colonising powers). With all this humiliation, it's no surprise that the Chinese would want to drive western influence out of China. Evidently, that endeavour has failed.
In the beginnings of human settlements, when the Agricultural Revolution had happened and people needed to grow food to survive, the most fundamental feature of the soil was its fertility.
And so it happens that soil is much more fertile and easy to grow food on if there are floods or at least water nearby.
The first map shows the localization of the Indus Valley civilization (3300 - 1300 BCE) and the second is where the Yellow River civilization (3500 BCE-?) was born.
These civilizations were formed in these territories due to the presence of water: in the Indus Valley there were periodical floods that helped grow food, and in the Yellow River basin it was possible to build an irrigation system that sustained people around it.
<span>because most formerly enslaved workers left the South. (fun fact) the south lost a lot of money in their plantations etc because of the release of the slaves. hints why they fought against it. it was their lively hood not that is was ok.</span>
