Answer:
Details of Louisiana Purchase: United States purchase 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River which previously belonged to the French Empire for $15 million.
At that time, Jefferson's had two main concerns about the deal :
- The region surrounding the purchased territory was shared between Spain and Great Britain. He's worried that a potential conflict might occurred with them because of the purchase
- The constitution did not directly stated that the president has the power to purchase the territory belonged to another countries.
Personally I think they done it because they may have thought it was a blessing from the gods
Virgin islands
Seriously??
Answer:
It was in direct opposition to the civilizations below:
A. Ancient Rome
B.Ancient Greece
Explanation:
The heliocentric theory of solar system places the sun at the center of the universe. This was in direct opposition with Geocentric theory model promoted during the Ancient Greece and Roman period.
This theory places the earth at the center of the universe due to the fact that, the sun tends to revolve around the earth once a day (when viewed from any part of the world) and earth seems to be unmoving from the perspective of those observers.
It was Copernicus who propounded the heliocentric theory of the solar system that supersedes this Geocentric system after so many centuries.