Writing – a system of graphic marks representing the units of a specific language – has been invented independently in the Near East, China and Mesoamerica. The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first.
The answer is C
- It operated as a condemnation of totalitarianism and militarism.
The United States’ approach to foreign policy had not change conceptually from the days it signed its independence. These ideas were primarily based on protecting US interests overseas and restricting foreign influences in the Americas. Once they furthered themselves politically and
economically, they gained the status of being a world power and they still wanted more. They figured they had to strengthen the country industrially as they needed worldwide markets for its growing industrial and agricultural
surpluses as well as sources of raw materials for manufacturing. They could only achieve these foreign markets with more concentrated efforts on its foreign policy as America was principally guided by economic motives.
The internal economic growth of the United States made them want to look outward for foreign markets. Export earnings increased from 450 million to over a billion from 1870 to the early 1890’s. US business’s were soon
overpowering foreign competition as even American steelmakers could easily compete with any British producer in the world. Everything seemed to be inciting the US to expand abroad. Expansionists throughout America emphasized the resources of what other lands could provide and the wealth that could result from their establishment. For example, Cuba offered an abundance of sugar
plantations and land in Panama would offer America control of the canal.
The economic benefits of a foreign land can be seen through an example of Americans exploring the distant islands of Hawaii. During the course of the early 1800s, missionaries from America traversed on a laborious voyage to Hawaii and ended up settling there. They offered accounts of incredible economic opportunities and possibilities in the Hawaiian islands. Consequently, other Americans proceeded to Hawaii to become sugar planters and to establish lucrative businesses.
The colonists and early Americans
got the idea that only male land owners should vote from England. Voting in England during pre-1832 was
dependent on three criteria – sex, age and property. Only men over the age of
21 were allowed to vote – and only if they owned property over a certain value.
It was essentially a way of making voting a rich man’s privilege, reinforced by
small boroughs having more MPs than larger counties, which were predominantly
inhabited by poorer workers. The Great Reform Act in 1832 broadened the
spectrum of voters to include the likes of landowners and shopkeepers as part
of the property criteria. The constituency boundaries were rearranged to make
representation less unfair and householders paying more than £10 in annual rent
were also given the vote
