C. the closing of the First Bank of the United States
Marco Polo is very well known for his travels on this silk road as well as his 24-year journey to Asia. Throughout this time he became very well acquainted with the people he encountered and became a confidant of Kublai Khan. Since Kublai Khan was the Khagan of the Mongol Empire this allowed Marco polo to fit in better.
The best example of the influence of Athenian democracy on later governments is the representative democracy of the United States. One shared quality is the amount of nationalism and patriotism seen in the people and government.
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The age of exploration fostered the ideology and policies practiced by Western European countries of extending their rules over foreign nations using violence and military intervention to gain political and economic control over the foreign nations' resources which became normal worldwide.
Western empires have usually pretended to advocate for democracy, freedom and/or equality but cynically contradicting themselves by depriving their colonized peoples from those, overthrowing their governments and setting up instead <em>puppet leaders</em> easily manipuated by the empire.
They basically pronounce rules for others but they do not have the intend to follow themselves
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