<u> (D) For the Treaty of Portsmouth.</u>
The Treaty of Portsmouth, signed between Japan and Russia in September 1905, was the treaty that formally set the terms that ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), in which Russia recognized Japan as the dominant power in Korea. In such negotiations, the American President Theodore Roosevelt was an important key to mediate and finally end the conflict.
This made him become the first American President to ever win a Nobel Prize for Peace the following year.
The important natural resource in West Africa that the Songhai Empire controlled was salt.
This salt was predominantly found in the Sahara desert - there are still a lot of salt mines in this West African desert. The Songhai Empire heavily relied on salt trade, which brought most of its money into the empire - this is the reason why it was so powerful at the time - because of salt and gold.
Positive effect:
Benefited the people at the top.
A flexible system making power and decision.
Allowed stability and security.
The lord had a unique relationship with his vassals.
Created an obligation for the powerful to help and protect the weak.
Negative effect:
90% of population were were commoners or peasants.
Serfs has no say in that time.
The kings were not in direct control of all their subjects.
Relied on gaining status through work and power.
Growth of the railroads.The government gave the railroad companies huge amounts of land for every mile of track laid. This land was used to develop new towns and cities, greatly reducing the area of free pasturage available to cattle owners for their herd.
Increasing numbers of new immigrants. Many of these European immigrants set up as sheep farmers, which required much less capital investment than cattle farming. The sheep farmers fenced off their land, further reducing available free pasturage for cattle, and additionally denying access to vital water sources for the cattle herds.
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Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux.
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