The enlightenment sparked ideas of natural rights and freedoms, when the British government had colonized the americas, there were no rights granted. The people educated in the enlightenment know thinkers like John Locke with his idea that everyone is born with rights, and resize they are not receiving these.
What is significant about Angela Merkel's position as Chancellor of Germany is that she's the first woman to be Chancellor of Germany.
"Churchill was at pains to say in his memoirs that he was never going to negotiate with Germany, but it is clear that in 1940 he had not ruled out talking to a non-Hitler German government," said Professor Reynolds. ... This too was played down when Churchill came to writing The Second World War.
They: benefited from the gold and salt trade, were influenced strongly by trade. (dense vegetation, not desert, prevented the Islamic conquest of sub-Saharan africa)
