Brahmins were the highest class that typically consisted of priests and those of high academics.
Kshatriya's were typically comprised of warriors and kings and were the second highest class.
Vaishya's were merchant's and landowners and were the third highest class, a common ground middle class.
Sudra's were the commoners, peasants and servants, the hard laborers that worked.
Pariah's or untouchables were the outcasts of the caste system, the street sweepers or the latrine cleaners. They were the lowest of the system and treated as they were called.
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The gilded age allowed america to grow rapidly in industrialization and economic wealth, as well as urbanization and the construction of the transcontinental railroad (steel, oil, etc). the progressive era developed higher social, constitutional, and political levels (big business, monopolies, trusts, political machines). hope this helped!
The United States placed trade restrictions on Japan because of Japan's imperial aggression in China and then (in 1941) because of Japan's move to occupy French Indochina.
"Before World War II" is a problematic phrase. If viewed from the standpoint of Asia, what became World War II already began in the 1930s with Japanese imperial aggression into Manchuria, to take over Chinese territory. Beginning in 1938, the United States adopted increasingly severe trade restrictions against Japan in response. When Japan moved into French Indochina in 1941, the USA froze all Japanese financial assets in the USA and placed an embargo on all oil and gasoline shipments to Japan. The Japanese viewed the embargo as an act of war, and their attack against the US at Pearl Harbor was (from their viewpoint) a response to US trade sanctions against them.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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- Around the 1850s
- Caused urbanization
- Helped by the building of canals, as well as steam ships
- Steam and hydro-power were a big thing, so people would settle around water sources, specifically running water sources
- Rapid urbanization = crowding in cities/not enough places for people to live = unplanned/inefficient infrastructure in cities = disease and poverty ran rampant