The first wave of European immigrants to arrive to the United States in the nineteenth century came from D. northwestern Europe--mainly Dutch, German, Irish, etc.
The Dutch East India Company was the first European that challenged the Portuguese domination of Asian trade. Different from Spanish and Portuguese traders, the Dutch expeditions were not controlled by the government, they had full sovereign powers. Because of that they had an enormous amount of power, they set up colonies and trading posts around the world, they captured Malacca from the Portuguese rule and opened trade with China.
The correct answer is "semiarid steppe".
Mongolia is characterized by a extreme continental climate, with warm summers and long, dry and very cold winters. It has extreme diurnal and annual ranges of temperature as it is characteristic in continental climate regions. It is a very sunny country, even called "the land of blue sky".
The average temperatures recorded are below zero from November to March, and not too far from zero in April and in October. In winter nights it is common to reach -40°C temperatures (the minimum figure recorded was -55°C at lake Uvs). On the other hand, the most extreme summer temperatures rise as high as +40°C in the Gobi Desert and +33°C in the capital Ulaanbaatar. It is not strange that there are monthly temperature variations of +45°C in many regions of this country.
Because of the lack of strong middle class.
