Answer:
B. to refer to periods of time
Explanation:
Historians use terms such as A.D., B.C., decade, and century to to refer to periods of time.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a Christian, and his strong belief about his religious preference paved the way for him to lead a non-violent resistance during the Civil Rights movement. He was the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and paved the way for combating segregation in Albany, Georgia.
While the South utilized slavery to sustain its culture and grow cotton on plantations, the North prospered during the Industrial Revolution. Northern cities, the center of industry in the United States, became major metropolises due to an influx of immigrants. With this willing and cheap workforce, the North did not require a slave system. Although some northerners found the institution of slavery morally reprehensible, most did not believe in complete racial equality either. Slavery became even more divisive when it threatened to expand westward because non-slave holding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories.
Answer:
A. Osama bin Laden declared that the attacks were part of a holy jihad against America.
B. A terrorist network called al-Qaeda hijacked four civilian airliners and killed over 3,000 people.
C. Saddam Hussein masterminded the plan to attack New York and Washington.
Explanation:
The attacks of September 11, 2001 (commonly referred to as 9/11 or with the 11-S or 11S numeronym) were a series of four terrorist attacks committed on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, by 19 members of the jihadist network Al Qaeda, by hijacking commercial aircraft to be hit against various targets, causing the death of 3016 people (including the 19 terrorists and the 24 disappeared) and leaving more than 6000 injured, as well as the destruction in New York of the entire complex of buildings of the World Trade Center (including the Twin Towers) and serious damage to the Pentagon building (headquarters of the Department of Defense of the United States, in the state of Virginia), an episode that would precede the war in Afghanistan and the adoption by the US government and its allies of the so-called "war on terror" policy.
Answer:
Option: An imperial eunuch who was put in charge of Chinese voyages into the Indian Ocean
Explanation:
Zheng He is known to be a great Chinese explorer and trader who helped China in getting power over the Indian Ocean in the 15th century. He became fleet commander under Ming Dynasty. He went to several expeditions and opened trading connection with South Asia, modern-day Indian, Sri Lanka, Java, and Sumatra.
