<u>This portion of the text shows Hobbes supported an absolute ruler:</u>
- <em>Men are continually in competition for honour and dignity . . . and consequently amongst men there ariseth on that ground, envy, and hatred, and finally war. ... No wonder if there be somewhat else required, besides [contract], to make their agreement constant and lasting; which is a common power to keep them in awe and to direct their actions to the common benefit.
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The only way to erect such a common power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion of foreigners, and the injuries of one another . . . is to confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills, by plurality of voices, unto one will.</em>
Further detail:
Thomas Hobbes published a famous work called Leviathan in 1651. The title "Leviathan" comes from a biblical word for a great and mighty beast. Hobbes believed government is formed by people for the sake of their personal security and stability in society. In Hobbes' view, once the people put a king (or other leader in power), then that leader needs to have supreme power (like a great and mighty beast). Hobbes' view of the natural state of human beings without a government held that people are too divided and too volatile as individuals -- everyone looking out for his own interests. So for security and stability, authority and the power of the law needs to be in the hands of a powerful ruler like a king or queen. And so people willingly enter a "social contract" in which they live under a government that provides stability and security for society.
The correct answer is A) Africa.
By 1500, Africa supplied almost half the gold in Europe.
In the 1500s, gold was an abundant precious rock in West Africa. Indeed, there were many gold deposits that for the African tribes was nos considered very valuable...until the Europeans arrived and realize how much gold there was. Africans used to trade gold for salt because salt was much need for the conservation of food. European colonies were the ones that took much of the gold from the African colonies to sent it to their European monarchies.
It is the "Great Chain of Being"--derived from the thinking of Plato and Aristotle-- that recognizes God as the ultimate authority in government and law, and of course over all humans and animals.
Answer:
World War I was the first time since the Berlin Conference of 1884 that European colonial powers fought each other on a large scale, and not over issues related to their respective colonies.
This situation implied a general weakening of the European powers, which neglected the affairs of their colonies to dedicate their efforts to solve the war and the well-being of their nations. Therefore, this caused the colonial powers to lose power in Africa, thus starting anti-colonial movements that deepened after the Second World War. In addition, in the war itself, many countries, such as Germany, lost their colonies to other nations, which caused the inhabitants of the colonies themselves to lose a sense of belonging to their colonizers.
