The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear” – Will Ferguson, Canadian author and satirist.
Answer:
The Cuban missile crisis
Explanation:
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War.
It may have been the moment when the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war. There was a coup in Cuba in 1959. A small group led by Fidel Castro took power in this Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban Missile Crisis comes to an end. The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty.
Answer:
Answered below
Explanation:
The overland routes of the Nile River and Mediterranean sea were trade routes used by merchants trading in ancient Egypt and across the middle East and Arabian nations. The ancient Egyptians traded gold, linen, copper, ebony, papyrus, grain and iron.
Egyptian traders met traders from other civilization just beyond the mouth of the Nile River to trade goods.
Disadvantages of the overland routes include; The route crossed a barren and really hot desert which made traveling challenging.
Also, the Egyptians placed a heavy tax on the usage of the route.
The discovery of the Cape of good hope made the route obsolete.
The major factors that contributed to the global silver trade between 1550 and 1800 were competition for power, increasing demand for Asian goods, and prevalence of currency.
<span>Roman military personal equipment</span> was produced in large numbers to established patterns, and it was used in an established way. These standard patterns and uses were called the res militaris or disciplina. Its regular practice during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire led to military excellence and victory. Roman equipment (especially armor) gave them "a very distinct advantage over their barbarian enemies." [1]This did not imply that every Roman soldier had better equipment than the richer men among his opponents. According to Edward Luttwak, Roman equipment was not of a better quality than that used by the majority of its adversaries.[2]
Initially, they used weapons based on Greek and Etruscan models. On encountering the Celts, they based new varieties on Celtic equipment. To defeat the Carthaginians, they constructed an entire fleet de novo based on the Carthaginian model. Once a weapon was adopted, it became standard. The standard weapons varied somewhat during Rome's long history, but the equipment and its use were never individual.
The legionary wore his sword high on the right side of his body. This enabled it to be drawn underarm with his right hand without interfering with the shield<span> which he carried in his left.</span>
A soldier carried two spears to throw at the enemy. The spears were just over two metres* long and they were designed to bend and stick in the enemy's shield so he cannot use it to protect himself. They were difficult to pull out and will bend on impact, so they couldn't be thrown back at the attacking Roman soldiers.
<span>The pugio was a small dagger used by Roman soldiers as a sidearm. It was worn on left side.</span>
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