Because it was harder to travel over moountains.
I think that the question is about 1990s specifically (in 1900 it was not independent, but part of the Austrian Empire) and the country is Czechoslovakia.
It split into Czech Republic (now also called Czechia, also officially) and into Slovakia: today two independent countries and part of the EU
Answer:
Paired-Associates
Explanation:
Paired Associate Learning is another modality of verbal memory testing in which the person hears or memorize a list of pairs of words,At a later time point, memory for those pairs is typically tested by having them either recall one of the words in response to the word it was paired with during encoding or by asking them to distinguish between word pairs that were encoded together and word pairs composed of two words that were studied, but were not paired during encoding.
Answer: According to the Bible, as king, Saul marshaled military forces to fight the Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, Amalekites and Philistines.
Explanation: hope this is the right saul