yes because a unitary government might be a dictatorship or democracy .
I believe Brueghel is using the painting as a metaphor for human pride and ambition...It’s a parable on human aspiration.Icarus drowns amid the landscape..Life goes on according to the painting..Trading vessels go about their business..The death of Icarus is of no importance than a bird falling out of the sky..Mankind goes about its business..
The Balkans are often referred to as the "Powder keg of Europe" because the area saw a number of smaller events that eventually set off much larger ones, leading to World War I. Look at reference.com.
The development of Florence was due to its strategic location, being a meeting point of several cultures and having adequate access to the sea. The specificity of the region, the cosmopolitan character of the place and the richness of commerce promoted an intense artistic and cultural flourishing. The work of Machiavelli, in this sense, fits in this historical space, since it fosters an ode to civil government.
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One historical event in the period 1787 to 1803 that would be used to support Ellis's interpretation is the United States President Thomas Jefferson's historical interpretation about the approval of the Louisiana Purchase.
For historian Joseph J. Ellis, the issue was the way President Thomas Jefferson proceeded to buy the Louisiana territory to the French, knowing that he could have been going beyond his powers as the head of the executive branch. The question for historian Ellis is not that his decision over the territory was right, but the way he implemented that decision that challenged his powers as President. Thomas Jefferson had big hopes that the next step for the American government was in the conquest of the western part of the United States.
