Political Transformations

In the world there are different leaders, empires, governments and ways to rule but they are always changing. Throughout history many empires have come and gone. The Soviet Union was one of those empires that collapsed. The book says that there were only a few spectators in Moscow’s central square where people watched and witnessed their empire die. I do not understand why the people of the Soviet Union did not try to stop the crash of their empire and do everything in their power to prevent it. In general these few pages talk a lot about the rise and crash of the different empires and how they got to that pint. The Europeans had a huge advantage over others in many ways. One of the reasons why they could easily conquer the Americas before others was their location. Europeans were much closer then for example the Chinese. When the Europeans did arrive in the Americas they could easily wipe out Native American populations without even trying because others were not immune like them and their bodies couldn’t fight the diseases.