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Did Not contribute to environmental changes
Worldwide decline in service industries
How have modernity, science, and globalization affected religions
Religion offered a means to oppose elements of a secular modernity
neo liberal approach to economic development
Privatization of a state run companies
Key issues in western feminism by colored
ending racism and poverty
Support of American Empire
American economic military
transnational corporations relocate their facilities in search of
the least restrictive environmental regulations
how does global distribution of Mcdonalds highlights American empire
Soft power
Original meaning of third world
An alternative to Western capitalism
Calling it the Anthropocene era calls attention to
the lasting impact of human activity
Compare Gulen movement in Turkey and Amman Message in Jordan
Both sought to encourage cross cultural and inter religious dialogue
Not a early sign of the modern world
Emergence of Islam
A factor contributing to the collapse of the Moche, Maya, and Chaco cultures
A long term drought
How did Gandhi win Indian indepence from Britain
With decades of non violent resistance
result of the partition of India
A half million deaths as Muslims and Hindus migrated to find new homes
What distinguished the end of European African and Asian colonial empires from other cases of imperial disintegration
The mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology
in contrast to decolonization of the Americas the struggles for independence in Africa and Asia
affirmed the vitality of precolonial cultures
a fundamental contradiction that undermined the colonial enterprise
The ideal of national self determination was at odds with denial of independence to colonies
Change in international arena that contributed to the end of European colonial rule
The United Nations provided an international platform to conduct anti colonial agitation
social or economic circumstance in European colonies that contributed to anti colonial movements
Growing amount of Western educated colonial elites who did not view colonial rule as a vehicle for progress
How did the system of apartheid in South Africa end
Negotiation between white South African gov and black South African nationalist leaders
In Africa what happened to the political parties that had led the movements for independence from colonial rule
Most became personal dictatorships
What contributed to the loss of popular support for the democratic institutions established in the wake of independence from colonial rule
Poor economic performance
Result of White revolution of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran
Discontent and resentment which helped the Islamic revolution
new nation state in 1940
Israel
