An increase in preferences for salty tastes
<span>Britain's superior navy allowed them to seize control of key ports and conquer France's colonies. Because of this advantage, the British were better able to transport troops to theater and bear the costs of war for so long. Despite Spain's entry into the war, the British won on the strength of their colonial wealth backed by the world's best navy.</span>
In the Balkans, Serbia had won autonomy in 1817, and southern Greece won independence in the 1830s. But many Serbs and Greeks still lived in the Balkans under Ottoman rule. The Ottoman empire was home to other national groups, such as Bulgarians and Romanians. During the 1800s, various subject peoples staged revolts against the Ottomans, hoping to set up their own independent states.
Such nationalist stirrings became mixed up with the ambitions of the great European powers. In the mid-1800s, Europeans came to see the Ottoman empire as "the sick man of Europe." Eagerly, they scrambled to divide up Ottoman lands. Russia pushed south toward the Black Sea and Istanbul, which Russians still called Constantinople. Austria-Hungary took control of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This action angered the Serbs, who also had hoped to expand into that area. Meanwhile, Britain and France set their sights on other Ottoman lands in the Middle East and North Africa.
Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic republic on 1 April 1979 and to formulate and approve a new theocratic-republican constitution whereby Khomeini became supreme leader of the country in December 1979. The revolution was unusual for the surprise it created throughout the world.
1) The primary goal of the Anti-Defamation League is ( C ) to defend jews against verbal attacks and false statements. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an international Jewish non-governmental organization created to fight anti-Semitism in all possible ways.
2) Theodore Roosevelt proposed the Square Deal to ( C ) keep the wealthy from taking advantage of small business owners.
