The United States became an empire in 1898 when we annexed Hawai’i and the Spanish overseas empire. When we annexed Alaska, as a non-contiguous territory, we were on the way to empire. When we annexed distant tropical islands we were there. Over the next decades we created Panama and annexed part of it, we occupied Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and we intervened in Mexico, China, and Russia. After WWII we adopted neo-imperial, indirect methods and engaged in horribly bloody, proxy wars with the Soviets. Since the end of the Cold War, we have returned to more direct interventions. But, because these do not involve direct annexation of foreign territories, they are not truly imperial. They need a prefix, neo-, semi-, post-, or something else.
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In the middle of the twelfth century,a distinctive new architecture known today as Gothic emerged in the Île-de-France,the French royal domain around Paris (MAP 16 1). The appearance there of a new style and technique of building coincided with the emergence of the monarchy as a powerful centralizing force.
Answer: That would be the Battle of Waterloo (1815)
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The purposes of laws that congress passes are to carry out their constitutional duty to govern the United States through legislation. Hope this helps