<u>Answers may include at least two of the following:</u> Weak rulers bribed the army for support while Constantine led the army. Many rulers persecuted Christians while Constantine ended persecution. Rulers before Diocletian tried to rule an empire that was too large; Constantine first ruled only the West. Weak rulers often stole money for themselves and the army while Constantine used money to build important churches and to move the capital.
Constantine was strong and believed in Christianity, he allowed churches and the practice of religious beliefs openly. He helped to plan and to pay churches to be built where Jesus was crucified. Constantine led the army and had no reason to bribe it.
Weak and corrupt emperors stole money from the empire for themselves and to bribe soldiers to be loyal, leading eventually to a weak economy because money was scarce. Weak leaders persecuted Christians.
In the poem "Garden of My Childhood, the author’s childhood garden is a metaphor for his home country, China. With great sorrow, Chang has to leave the garden of his childhood, that is to say, China, and flee to another country (America). Therefore, the central team of the poem is exile, and Chang’s feelings about leaving his home and his new life.
Answer: The entry of the United States was the turning point of the war, because it made the eventual defeat of Germany possible. It had been foreseen in 1916 that if the United States went to war, the Allies' military effort against Germany would be upheld by U.S. supplies and by enormous extensions of credit.
