What was the relationship between the ottoman empire's power and the rise of european exploration?
a. the ottomans taxed european goods coming through asia, motivating europeans to seek new trade routes by sea to asia.
b. the ottoman empire's powerful navy controlled much of the open sea, delaying european exploration for several centuries.
c. the ottoman empire had enough wealth to sponsor scientific research, leading to the discovery of technology that allowed for exploration.
d. the ottoman empire demonstrated the success of colonization, leading europeans to search for colonies of their own.

#1 im pretty sure its a.

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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