Learning Objective: Explain how internal and external factors contributed to change in various states after 1900.
A:The West dominated the global political order at the beginning of the 20th century, but both land-based and maritime
B:empires gave way to new states by the century's end.
The older, land-based C:Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires collapsed due to a combination of internal and external
factors. These changes in Russia eventually led to communist revolution
States around the world challenged the existing political and social order, including the Mexican Revolution that arose as
a result of political crisis.
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