Algeria: Colony to Country Throughout history, there have been invasions and occupations. Starting with Alexander The Great, the idea came about that with land came power. The mid 1800’s brought about a resurgence of countries, mainly France and England, wanting more land. But unlike the past 400 years where the new land that was added was completely new land inhabited only by uncivilized savages, the land now being added was already inhabited with “civilized” people with …showed first 75 words of 914 total…

…showed last 75 words of 914 total…was welcomed by the people, but was short lived as another coup took control of the country. With this new government jobs became scarce and quality of life took a turn for the worse. Men waited in lines for jobs and women waited in lines for food. Only with an economic upturn of 4 the 1990’s did life improve, but it did not match the quality of life the people had briefly experienced in the 1980’s.