Practical escalators use electric fields to speed up and increase the energy of a beam of particles, which are steered unfocused by magnetic fields.
Answer: The country with the least casualties was (c) the Ottoman Empire.
The country with the highest casualty rate was (b) Austria-Hungary.
Explanation: The Ottoman Empire had the fewest casualties, as per the chart.
The casualty rate of Austria-Hungary was close to 89.9% of their total force, far greater than the casualty rate of Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
"A. The Spanish took Moctezuma prisoner" and "<span>E. Smallpox weakened the Aztec's ability to resist" are both descriptive of the Aztec's fall. "Guns Germs and Steel" is a great book that talks about this. </span>
<span>Throughout 1989 and 1990, the economy was weakening as a result of restrictive monetary policy enacted by the Federal Reserve. ... The immediate cause of the recession was a loss of consumer and business confidence as a result of the 1990 oil price shock, coupled with an already weak economy.</span>