Basically it was length. The traditional route eastward to the East Indies was really, really long and in order to reach it more efficiently and more cheaply Columbus decided to go westward with the notion he would accomplish this. But he miscalculated the size of the Earth and that led to many problems on his voyage.
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all male serve in the army starting at age 7
Assuming this is the Russian revolution of 1905 against the Russian aristocracy by the workers and peasants for basic human rights led to the multi-party system and a change in the constitution and this also was a forerunner or dress rehearsal for the October 1917 Socialist Revolution in Russia.
Answer: coffeehouses.
Explanation: This was an establishment that became popular gathering places in the eighteenth century in which the cities where full of merchants, captains, and traders and they discuss about new adventures and they keep up with the most recent events in those cities.
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Nixon needed China in negotiations with Vietnam.
-China is the most populated nation in world and wanted to have commercial relations
-Play USSR and China off one another
-Nixon would not be accused of being "soft on communism"
