Provide national security, encourages international trade, Fosters world peace, promotes democracy and human rights
1. A strong central government
<span>Spain and Portugal were bound by the Treaty of Tordesillas, so the Spanish had to sail westward and travel through the Americas to get to the Pacific and finally the Philippines. It is also their only direct access -- meaning without going through intermediaries -- to the east Indies, as all other parts were to be the domain of the Portuguese.
Further, as Spain faced increasing competition from their rivals the English, Dutch, French in the Atlantic world, their Pacific route was inaccessible to these rivals until much later.</span>
The world would be just a little bit different.
The correct answer is A) Both embraced Western ideas and worked to bring Russia fully into European cultural and political life.
The statement that best describes the similarities in reforms between Catherine the Great and Peter the Great is "Both embraced Western ideas and worked to bring Russia fully into European cultural and political life."
These rulers of Russia were interested in maintaining close ties and relationships with western European nations. They received the influence of other European rulers and customs from other parts of the continent.
Both Peter and Catherine considered that a good education was a good investment and although were dictators -Emperors in that time- they ruled to expand Russia's territory. However, both failed in improving the living condition of their subjects that remained poor.
