Midterm: Part 1: Explain terms Part 2: Short Questions The Making of the Third World How was Europe able to expand its empire and dominate “non-Europe”? Europe: decentralized; non-Europe: centralized Rise of capitalism Different periods of colonization Caribbean/Americas – 1550s > India and rest of Asia – 1750 > Africa – 1884 (Berlin Conference) The emergence of mercantilism (= commercialism - 李嘉誠主義) (“buy cheap‚ sell dear”) Break from mercantilism - rise of industrial capitalism >1760 Defining
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another had more than enough‚ the religious elites likely split the harvest among them. The religious system reinforced the hierarchical institution by forcing citizens to build structures for the priestly elite (Debuys 2011:84). The
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During World War II‚ citizens of the United States created a strong sense of national identity through military service‚ military supply manufacturing‚ and other contributions to the war effort. In the decade following the war‚ the United States shifted its gaze and group concern from threats of fascism in Europe to threats of spreading Communism emanating from the Soviet Union. Different from the national identity fostered during WWII‚ the post-war national identity Mark Hamilton Lytle calls “Cold
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assuming they received more than 25%‚ were given two thirds of the seats‚ easily making them the largest party with more than enough power to pass legislation without opposition. Mussolini’s original cautious deceitful approach was due to fear of the elite. He couldn’t be certain of people’s support for Fascism and it wasn’t until the Murder of Matteotti in 1924 that Mussolini was assured of his power. In June 1924 Matteotti‚ a prominent figure in the socialist party‚ was abducted and murdered by Fascists
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To state that the social‚ economic and political divisions were ‘merely heightened’ after the War would be to hugely underestimate the problems Germany faced post World War One. The main divisions’ pre-1914 however‚ were in no part indistinct or tenuous. The political divisions being largely due to the outdated and warped constitution‚ with the socio-economic divisions existing because of industrialisation and urbanisation. Despite such divisions‚ Germany managed to put her problems aside when war
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When the government could not levy punishment‚ it was up to the elites‚ militias and the army to do so in the name of “civilized order.” Government authorities went so far as to hang and/or decapitated criminals‚ leaving their bodies in public as an example of the consequences of crime [2]. Some of the most bloody
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Pineo (2014) claims that the cruceño movement was primarily driven by the elite for a perceived “usurpation of their birthright…to rule over the indigenous majority.” Thus‚ he situates the movement in terms of a post-colonial‚ racial hierarchy embedded in Bolivian society. Even still‚ this explanation falls flat as some authors
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classic period due to findings that no new monuments were built and evidence that elite palaces were burned
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According to the journal article‚ ‘Indonesia’s 2014 Elections: How Jokowi Won and Democracy Survived’‚ written by Marcus Mietzner‚ he presented his arguments by using comparative analysis. To analyze Indonesia’s 2014 election‚ he compared mainly the two president candidates- Probowo and Jokowi. The two candidates actually represented two different concepts on politics in Indonesia‚ which Mietzner classified in three perspective‚ namely grassroots volunteerism versus oligarchic machine politics; moderate
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above table shows the agility test results of 150 elite male soccer players. It shows‚ somewhat surprisingly‚ that defenders were quickest in the ‘T – Test’. However‚ in the slalom test and the forward/backward sprints midfielders come out as the quickest. In the majority of the testing the attackers tended to have the slowest times. Strength and Power Soccer is a sport the in which well developed power and strength are necessary to compete at an elite level. (Chamari‚ et al. 2008). Power performance
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