The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque country village in northern Spain. Hope this helps:)
Regarding Africa's continent, European nations fail to consider that the Europe's arbitrary post-colonial borders left Africans bunched into countries that don't represent their heritage, a problem that is still present at this days. The nations of the african continent<span> are largely defined not by its peoples heritage but by the follies of European colonialism.</span>
Before the Revolution
France was a monarchy ruled by the king. The king had total power over the government and the people. The people of France were divided into three social classes called "estates." The First Estate was the clergy, the Second Estate was the nobles, and the Third Estate was the commoners. (google)
<span>The system of democratic government that began to develop in the first decade of the 5th century B.C. in the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was a direct, rather than representative, democracy, and every adult male citizen could participate. An assembly of citizens and a council, or boule, met on an almost weekly basis and was responsible for deciding upon the civic and foreign policy affairs of the city-state. Not only were Athens' citizens encouraged to participate in the assembly meetings, those who did not participate were often ridiculed for their lack of involvement.</span>
