After conquering the Silk Road, a network of trade networks that connected East, South, and Western Asia with Europe, Genghis Khan realized how important it had become to his empire, seeing how much easier travel was for his soldiers. ... Because of the Mongols' expanding trading network, Europe and China's economy changed in several ways. ... The Mongol empire's trade network had a noticeable impact when it came to founding the modern world. ... This was accomplished by Kublai's skillful manipulation of the Chinese to partake in his trade network which his newly created Yu...

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The nature of our network age reflects this evolving social and political reality. ... With Global access to information networks, Technology often fools us by having unseen and unplanned effects. ... I suspect that the "idea of networks" will have both positive and negative consequences. Just as the "mass" in mass production defined the 20th Century with mass media, mass markets and mass education, the idea of "network" will define the social, political, economic and business concepts and visions for the 21st century. ... Social capitalism in Europe that emphasizes social stability and cu...

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Family matters and social responsibilities become secondary worries to his/her primary concern for existence, which is drinking (Stephens, 2007). ... Adhering to abstinence, according to AA, is ultimately linked to the kind of social network surrounding the recovering alcoholic. If the patient has an increased social network in both quality and size, and if the network is altogether supportive, it is possible to achieve the goal of abstaining from alcohol use (Borkman, Kaskutas, &ump; Owen 2007). ... " Therefore, the German example can be applied to other nations where social drinking is...

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Social causes were also a primary factor that led to imperialism. ... Because of the effective occupation, West Africa had new rulers who took advantage of existing trade networks, taxing merchants and farmers, investing the profits in railroads and harbors, and paying dividends to European stockholders. ...

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In America, there are no specific declarations that mention economic growth and greater social cohesion in the same document. It certainly isn't the case that America has already achieved an ideal level of social cohesion, far from it. ... That kind of attitude just wouldn't be tolerated in the European Union as the social charter assures workers rights are looked after. ... August 1, 2003 © 2003 Cable News Network Transcript. ...

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As migrants flowed within the British empire, Asians who arrived in Kenya were given greater access to social, educational and capitalist opportunities by the colonials, as a result of higher 'racial' status (also Bennell 1982, p131). This expanding community naturally reinforced itself, in part due to the issues of trust and networking, in the absence of openly available commercial institutions (Vandenberg 2003, p450).  ... Even in some instances when the British expressed a desire to provide better social programs for education, as in Tanganyika, there were various obstacles to t...

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Except for a few social deviants, neither Africans nor Europeans would enslave members of their own societies, but in the early modern period, Africans had a somewhat narrower conception of who was eligible for enslavement than had Europeans. ... The slave trade was thus a product of differing constructions of social identity and the ocean-going technology that brought Atlantic societies into sudden contact with each other. ... Because Amerindians died in large numbers, and insufficient numbers of Europeans were prepared to cross the Atlantic, the form that this demand took was shaped by con...

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Any cost benefit analysis would start from a recognition that globalisation has indeed improved economic efficiency and it has provided enhanced individual liberty for many; but in its failure to ensure social justice on a global scale, it also inhibits liberty for many more. ... It argues that globalisation is undermining the ability of governments to provide a legitimate social bond between governors and the governed. It is a problem that affects not only developing countries but developed ones as well, if indeed not more so given the more advanced state of the national social bond. I...

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In addition, Religion has been a major force in the shaping of Roman history, politically as much as socially. ... We also learned that France is home to the Ariane space rocket and Airbus Industries, and the boasts the world's most extensive high-speed train network. ...

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