It was "Vladimir the Great" who ordered Russians to convert to Orthodox Christianity, since he was very much impressed by the Orthodox churches in Constantinople.
Direct democracy is when everyone in a country votes on something. People's rights might be denied because it would be a tyrannical rule of the majority. For example, there's only 15% African-Americans in the US. If the 85% Caucasian population decided to vote something that was against the rights of the African-Americans, they wouldn't be able to oppose this because they would be a minority.
They started the korean war to prevent the spread of communism cause they associated communism with Russia. They did not like Russia .
"The Cuban Missile Crisis was Russia getting ballsy and really mad at us (Likely due to us having missiles in Turkey that could hit them)
And the Vietnam War was started for the same reason as the Korean War"
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1. Washington recognizes that it is natural for people to organize and operate within groups such as political parties, but he also argues that every government has recognized political parties as an enemy and has sought to repress them because of their tendency to seek more power than other groups and to take revenge on political opponents
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Two mian reasons why civilizations seek to expand their power:
- The quest for more resources: resources are always scarce, and every civilization wants to have more of them. Expanding its power, territory, and influence, is a way to seek control of more resources.
- To keep other civilizations from becoming more powerful: some civilizations have tried to expand their power mainly with the goal of keeping some neighboring civilization from becoming more powerful. For example, in Mesopotamia, the Assyrians conquered ended up conquering the Babylonians become the two civilizations were not able to coexist.
do you think expansion always leads to conflict?
No, expansion does not necessarily lead to conflict if the civilization that expands is pluralistic and respects cultural differences, and gives territories some degree of autonomy.
