"A. His army could not pass through the Alps" is the best option from the list as to what is true of Hannibal's route during the second Punic War, but he traveled with elephants.
Renaissance Humanism – named to differentiate it from the Humanism we have today – was an intellectual movement which originated in the thirteenth century, and came to dominate European thought during the Renaissance, in which it played a considerable role in creating. At the core of Renaissance Humanism was using the study of classical texts to alter contemporary thinking, breaking with the medieval mindsets and creating something new.
I would disagree with the statement "United States vs. Nixon expanded the power of the presidency." In reality, it shrank the power of the president.
In this Supreme Court case, Richard Nixon refused to give up taped conversations he had from the Oval Office. Nixon claimed that this action was protected by the idea of "executive privilege." This meant that because he was president, he had the ability to keep these tapes from going to the courts. However the Supreme Court, in a unanimous vote, stated that the president must give up the tapes. This showed that no person was above the law, including the president. This shows that the presidents are responsible to the courts and do not have special protection in legal cases.
Trade played a more central role in the mercantilist period of European history from 1500 to 1750 – sometimes referred to as early capitalism or trade capitalism – than in almost any other period.1 We must begin with the questions: When in human history did the first exchange of goods between Europe and the other four continents of Africa, Asia, America and Australia occur? Where are the origins of what one could describe as on-going exchange, as established economic relations to be found? These questions refer to an even larger global context because the global economic edifice changed fundamentally from "proto-globalization" to <span>globalization </span>.2 This process was primarily determined by Europe from the 15th to the 20th century. From the 16th century to 1914, trade within Europe at all times constituted the most significant portion of global trade, and the volume of that trade grew disproportionately quickly during the early modern period and into the modern period.3 National markets became increasingly interconnected, driven by numerous innovations in the areas of infrastructure, <span>transportation </span>, energy supply, and – not least – institutions (rules, constitutions, division of labour, currency standards, etc.). The transition from individual production to <span>mass production </span> and the convergence of prices of goods and materials made transactions considerably easier, thereby accelerating integration.
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Starting in the late Middle Ages at the latest and continuing at least into the 19th century, Europe dominated most developments in international trade. From the end of the 19th century, <span>North America </span> began to exert a stronger influence on the global economy.4 Around the beginning of the 21st century, the Asian states – most notably China – gained influence and the USA became financially dependent on its East Asian creditors, while China seems to become the engine of growth of the current century.
