Who ruled West Africa?

Who ruled West Africa? Germany, the latecomer, had claimed the 33,000 square miles of Togo (together with the much larger Cameroon territory on the eastern borders of what is usually accepted as western Africa). France and Britain remained, as before, the main imperial powers. Which ancient African kingdom was located in western Africa? The development […]

What does the statue symbolize in Pygmalion?

What does the statue symbolize in Pygmalion? The Roman poet Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, Book X, relates that Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes an ivory statue representing his ideal of womanhood and then falls in love with his own creation, which he names Galatea; the goddess Venus brings the statue to life in answer to his […]

Why were tariffs passed in the 1920s?

Why were tariffs passed in the 1920s? These were enacted, in part, to appease domestic constituencies, but ultimately they served to hinder international economic cooperation and trade in the late 1920s and early 1930s. High tariffs were a means not only of protecting infant industries, but of generating revenue for the federal government. How did […]

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