Why, according to Jared Diamond, was it that Spain conquered the new world and not the inhabitants of the new world conquering Spain?
What will be an ideal response?
The Europeans were from a continent that geographical advantages that enabled its people to progress and develop things like guns, germs and steel. Much of this was the result of having domesticated large animals to pull plows and other farm machinery. The natives in the new world did not have such tools or weapons or immunities to the diseases that the Europeans brought with them. They also did not have large ocean going ships.
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How do states avoid constant wars, according to neorealism?
a. They conclude international treaties that ban wars. b. The promote trade and interdependence. c. They organize in a multipolar world. d. They form alliances and balance each other by creating a bipolar system.
A dissenting opinion can be important because it
A. represents the position of the chief justice of the Supreme Court. B. is the statement of the defendant's attorney to the Court. C. must be carried out by local police in criminal law. D. often forms the basis of the arguments used later to reverse the previous decision and establish a new precedent. E. means that the case cannot be used as a precedent.
Provisions such as how the state must purchase stationery, the design of the Great Seal of Texas, and establishing a grain warehouse self-insurance fund are examples of
a. deadwood. b. separation of powers. c. checks and balances. d. statute-like detail. e. constitutionalism.
___________ validity asks whether a measure correlates with other closely related measures found in the same data set.
A. Convergent B. Nomological C. Predictive D. Functional