During the 13th and 14th centuries, the mongol empire
a) ceased to be a significant factor in the eurasian trading network.
b) found little use in regulating trade between asia and the mediterranean.
c) provided safety and security to the trading network between asia and the mediterranean sea.
d) used intimidation, terror, and brutality to effectively stop trade along most of the silk roads.

in 1859, brown and 21 of his followers attacked and occupied the federal arsenal in harper's ferry. their goal was to capture supplies and use them to arm a slave rebellion. brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. abolitionist and insurrectionist

explanation:

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”