[Get Solution] Evolution of Western Civilization

You will answer 2 questions in total for the final exam. Answer 1 question from the following: 1) Explain the Asian Triangle Trade and Europe’s mercantilist policy (make sure to explain the items traded and substituted).  How did they end the Atlantic Triangle Trade?  Explain with details. 2) After industrial capitalism started in the 1830s, why did it take until the 1890s for America to become a land of robber barons (the Gilded Age) where there was a large gap between the rich and the poor?  What was done about it?  Did the remedy work?  Explain your answer with details from the 1830s to the 1930s. 3) Use political economy and economic geography to explain why Germany went from an agricultural country to the most industrial country in Europe in the 19th century while Italy came to have a divide between the “rich north” and the “poor south” over the last 200 years. Answer 1 question from the following: A) Explain the origins of World War One, who entered the war when and why (make sure to include the United States)?  What were its results and the lessons to be learned?  (You do not need to explain the actual battles of the war.) B) Explain the origins of World War Two, who entered the war when and why for the major combatants.  Do not focus on the battles, rather explain the causes and the lessons of World War Two. C) Explain the origins and the end of the Cold War.  Also explain why the Cold War never got “hot.”  Make sure to discuss military, political-ideological, and economic reasons.