<span>A tsar was removed from the people and was rarely seen.
The tsar of the early 1900s was an absolute monarch with much control and answered little to the people. Though there were attempts at reform and the creation of a representative body called the Duma, the Tsar, especially Nicholas II, was known to shut it down or event attempted to remove it. Nicholas II would be the last tsar of Russia being forced to abdicate, step down, his throne in 1917. </span>
In the Spanish colonies in America the colonists created a kind of caste system based on ethnic hierarchy which of course put the Spaniards on top. The rest of ethnic groups ranked based on their resemblance of the Spaniards so for example the Indians would be ranked higher than Blacks as they more resembled the Spaniards.
<span>The major centers of
knowledge and learning i</span>n Western Europe during 6th and 7th centuries were located in monasteries.
After the fall of the Roman Empire (during the Dark Ages), the monasteries were
used to preserve the medical writings and books of the Greeks and Romans. Until
universities such as Salemo were built, the monasteries were the only centers
of learning.
