I believe the answer is: It was located on peninsula between Europe and Asia and lied on the cross of trade routes
This location gave constantinople a strategic location to control the trades between European traders and Asian traders. They could obtain a lot of profit by either taxing the trades that pass through their territory, or monopolizing a certain type of product themselves.
Answer:
1. First hand experience of poverty.
2. The United States was not invaded nor thoroughly destroyed.
3. Economic help.
Explanation:
1. Marshall came from a settler family in Virginia. His father suffered financial difficulties when George entered the Military Institute.
2. Marshall, who served in the first and in the second world war, had a more than average knowledge of the European continent. For him, having seen the destruction of Europe after world war II, he was aware that it might be difficult to explain the needs of millions of Europeans to Americans save at home in a country that didn´t suffer (civilians) like other countries did.
3. As my (grand)parents in the Netherlands once told me, the most difficult years of the world war came when it ended. There was nothing to eat.
The Netherlands, like most devastated European countries, urgently needed economically help in order to build up what was utterly destroyed.
Tip: look for the movie Europe by Lars von Trier.
The United States placed Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II because of fear that those with ethnic and cultural ties to Japan would aide Japan's cause in the war. After the surprising attack on Pearl Harbor, the American government (as well as many Americans) worried about Japanese threats and doubted the loyalty of Japanese Americans. - Enotes Website
Answer:
Wales and Scotland received the vote on the same terms as men (over the age of 21) as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928.
Explanation:
In 1832, Parliament passed a law changing the British electoral system. It was known as the Great Reform Act. This was a response to many years of people criticising the electoral system as unfair. ... Of 102 people arrested and tried, 31 were sentenced to death.
They had no standardized currency, they had a weak Congress, and they could not support a nation-wide military/militia.