Since Belgium was first in Africa, other European nations rushed to DIVIDE Africa. THE BERLIN CONFERENCE set the rules for Africa's division. 14 European nations met with NO African representation. So basically the Berlin Conference was a conference that decided who control what parts of Africa. (I did not look this up, this is what I learned in school in 7th grade.)
Explain why the Bill of Rights was ultimately added to the Constitution and whether you agree with the decision.
The reason farming was so difficult in Greece was because, there was a limited amount of good soil and cropland.
Five Traits of a Command Economy. A command economy is where a central government makes all economic decisions. Either the government or a collective owns the land and the means of production. It doesn't rely on the laws of supply and demand that operate in a market economy.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen was issued in 1789 by the French National Constituent Assembly. It is a document, which arose from the French Revolution, and contains the human civil rights which are stated to be universal, applicable everywhere and everytime.
The declaration includes the philoshophycal and political ideas of the Enlightment. The following two are the most important ones:
- The social contract concept of Rousseau which states that citizens hold the power of a nation and grant it to representatives and goverments through suffrage. It was a vision that clearly opposed the existent absolut monarchies and ancient regime systems that were operating at the moment.
- The division of powers by Montesquieu, which stated that the power of a nation should be divided in three independent branches: legislative, executive and judiciary, implemented together with a balance system that ensures that none of them gathers enough power to overrule the other branches.
