<span>Political power shifted from the central government to local notables and military strongmen.
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This led to civil wars in the kingdoms that furthermore weakened the initially powerful governments. The weak central governments could also not withstand the emerging imperialistic pressures from western powers. As a result the empires crashed one by one, and parts of their territories were taken over by the major imperial powers.
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John Locke Believe people should surrender all their rights in exchange for personal security
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Answer:
The costs of passing a bill that prohibits child labor is precisely that all the labor that children could have provided for the economy is forgone. So in pure economic terms, there is a loss of value, a sunk cost.
However, the benefit is both economic, and social. The economic benefit is that children will instead go to school, and educate themselves to become more productive workers in the future. And the social benefit is a fairer society, and wealthier too.
