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Nineteenth Century - Belgium had a colony in Africa: the belgian Congo. The Belgian leadership treated the native people of the Congo in an extremely brutal manner, most people were essentially slaves. Some workers were mutilated if they did not meet certain quotas, or if they "misbehaved".
Twentieth Century - France and Britain came to dominate several areas in the Middle East after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. The French Mandate in particular, created the countries of Syria and the Lebanon.
The problem was that the borders of these countries were created without regard for ethnic and religious differences.
For this reason, modern Syria and Lebanon are very conflictive countries (Syria is in a civil war, Lebanon had a civil war from 1975 to 1990) because of that.
Twenty-first century - The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 under the false claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction hidden in its territory. While the U.S. army managed to depose the former dictator, Sadam Hussein, the invasion caused the deaths of thousands of American Soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and Iraq continues to be a unstable country up to this day.
Answer:
1) suffering
2) suffering
Explanation:
When he went outside the palace, he saw famine, old age, starvation, and other ways that people suffered in life that he had not been exposed to before.
When he lived as a monk, he wanted to find the meaning of this suffering.
Answer:
god, glory, and gold
Explanation:
Europeans went to the new world for these three things mainly. First to spread God's word and convert the natives to Christianity which some found fulfilling. Two glory, people traveled to be the first and to come back as heroes. Third is the gold. Like most things in life people are in it for the wealth and riches. Europeans went to the new world because they were under the impression the would find lots of gold.
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12. Johannes Gutenberg's printing press made it possible to manufacture large numbers of books for relatively little cost for the first time. Books and other printed matter consequently became available to a wide general audience, greatly contributing to the spread of literacy and education in Europe.
13. Four common causes, as recognized by social scientists, are technology, social institutions, population, and the environment. All four of these areas can impact when and how society changes. And they are all interrelated: a change in one area can lead to changes throughout.
Explanation:
The western end of the railroad in 1858 was St. Louis.
