Answer:
Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. Senator and Secretary of War, was elected President of the Confederate States of America by the members of the Confederate constitutional convention. After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States.
Explanation:
The die is cast means an event has happened or a decision has been taken that cannot be changed. It is also a variation of a Latin phrase attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on January 10, 49 BC, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy.
Today, the phrase crossing the Rubicon is an idiom that means to pass a point of no return.
Well, number one is impossible. Great Britain was the first country to industrialize; they started the Industrial Revolution in 1780, with it taking full force in 1840. Japan's industrialization happened with the Meiji Restoration, a full 30 years after the formal beginning of the British industrialization.
2) Literally no one ever conquered Japan. Ask the Mongols- they tried. twice. and failed. twice.
3)Japan only has 20% arable land, so that's not much. And even still, the only country they actually traded with until after their industrialization was the Netherlands.
4) Japan, only a couple hundred miles from China, borrowed many aspect of their culture, which explains why Buddhism played (and still does to an extent) a large role in Japanese society.
So #4 is your answer