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What accounts for the economic differences between Western Europe and Eastern Europe?
One difference: Western Europe has a much more tried and tested education system that trains labor. This skilled labor provides the skills that are needed by today's global firms. Those in finance, consulting, etc. Those firms move in, hire the skilled labor, produce profits, pay very attractive wages, the money is spent in the economy. It can be used for domestic and import consumption. The money in vast sums circulates in the economy.
Number two: Western European countries use much more liquid and stable currencies. Many other countries put sterling and euros into their national treasuries, rendering these currencies less vulnerable to currency sell-offs/shocks. Investors are more relectant to invest in companies and government debt in countries with very unstable currencies, i.e. there is not much buying interest. These currencies can be very difficult to unload after selling off investments, as there are no willing buyers.
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Where was the stalemate of World War I?
On the western front, along France's eastern border (it was called the western front because it was on the west of Germany.
Who was involved with the Columbian Exchange?
The Eastern (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and Western (Americas) hemispheres.
Why Russia was distinct from western Europe?
The Soviet Union's relations with Western Europe following World War II were colored heavily by Soviet relations with Eastern Europe and by the Warsaw Pact forces arrayed in Europe against NATO forces.The Soviet Union's policy toward Western Europe had five basic goals: preventing rearmament and nuclearization of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
What separates the Eastern and Western side of the world?
Nothing at all. It's all verbiage and tradition.
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Constantine never had a thing to do with the "eastern" empire or the "western" empire. He moved the capital of the Roman empire to the eastern city of Constantinople. The connotation of eastern and western was not made by the ancients, but is a term invented by historians to clarify the part of the empire they would be writing about. The ancients considered the empire one, and they all considered themselves Roman.
