The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns. The League was created to generate economic interest and diplomatic ties between the countries and towns it took place in. The Hanseatic League was so prominent that the towns in the league had their own armies for mutual protection and aid.
J. Henry Alston was the first African American psychologist to publish a informational/research piece in a major American journal of psychology called the APA (American Psychological Association)
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If we are talking about current times, manufacturing production of the world has taken a crear shift toward the Far East.
Currently, the largest East Asian country: China, is also the largest manufacturer in the world, accounting for 28% of total global manufacturing. This has led some commentators to declare that China is the "factory of the world".
Other East Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, also have large manufacturing sectors. In the case of the first three countries, in more technologically advanced sectors, while Vietnam is mostly developing a cheaper manufacturing sector that has replaced China in some sectors.
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People are born into caste systems, which is a rigid system that you can only move up in if you have lived a good and generous and are reborn into a higher level.