The main motivation for Greek colonization throughout the Mediterranean basin was "<span>a. The strained resources of the mountainous Balkan Peninsula," since this area provided a vast amount of natural resources. </span>
<span>The correct answer should be The Byzantine Empire flourished. The Byzantine empire adopted Christianity while it was still Roman empire and the religions didn't merge but rather went their own ways, splitting into Orthodoxy and Catholicism, former in the east latter in the west. The Byzantine empire flourished and became one of the strongest powers in the world.</span>
The invention of the telegraph. Hope this helps.
The stock market crash of 1929; the collapse of world trade due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Hawley, it was signed by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports were the second highest in United States history, exceeded by only the Tariff of 1828), government policies; bank failures and panics; and the collapse of the money supply.
During the Middle Ages, books were extremely elaborate in Europe. While other civilizations had used easily accessible materials and formats to create their scrolls, books or tablets, Europeans during the Middle Ages spent a great deal of time and money making books. These were bound in leather, decorated with elaborate drawings, and copied by hand in elaborate scripts.
This had a very important effect on European society. It meant that books were not available for the vast majority of the population. It also meant that books were difficult to find and very expensive to acquire. Finally, it also meant that only a very small group of people could read, and these were usually wealthy men and monks.