Question

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Answer 1

Eric Hobsbawm was historian who called the 20th Century, 'The Age of Extremes'.

From the political point of view, the people of the world saw the shoots (as in the plant shoots [not literal], like wanting to grow a huge tree [political empire]) of democratic ambitions grow along with the rise in the domination of fascists who encouraged the development of ideas of unimaginable power and hatred for other people.