“I have never had but one allegiance—I cannot divide it now. I have loved but one flag and I cannot share that devotion and give
affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league. Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. “National I must remain, and in that way I like all other Americans can render the amplest service to the world. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence . . . . We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.” –Henry Cabot Lodge August 1919 What effect does Lodge suggest US membership in the League of Nations might have? Membership might weaken the United States’ vigor and moral force. Membership might promote bolshevism. Membership might produce greater profits for the United States. Membership might force the United States to choose a new flag.
Inca Empire - called their empire Tahuantinsuyu. Located in Peru. It stretched 2,500 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to beyond Santiago, Chile.
Ponce de Leon - an early explorer and conquistador who went in search of opportunities and gold in the New World. He discovered Florida
Francisco Pizarro - The Spanish conquistador who led a well-planned expedition to find Cibola. Traveled 7,000 miles across much of the southwestern United States
Atahualpa - Ruler of Inca (Grand Inca)
Colony - a region controlled by a foreign country. Conquerors saw themselves as parents and their colonies as children.
Cibola - 7 fabulously rich cities, called the seven cities that Europeans had been searching for.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - Conquers the Inca Empire in 1532, with just 180 men, 67 horses and 3 big noisy guns.
Maize - corn
Mother Country - The "home" country of the people who found/ start a colony
The Renaissance effect led to invariably increasing the power of the independent states. As we know that in the monarchy system the monarch is established as the figure head of the nation. However after the Renaissance the independent monarch could rule over their states without interference from the nation head.
In effect, Schlieffen aimed to turn the inescapable reality that Germany would have to fight a two-front war into two one-front wars which it could hope to win. But for the plan to succeed, Germany would have to attack France in such a way as to avoid the heavy fortifications along the Franco-German border.
