Answer: The answer is the 1st option.
Explanation: The first sentence in the passage above talks about predicting the possibility of Mongolian domination and then the rest of that paragraph backs this prediction by outlining how weak or fragmented much of the world was. So the author was suggesting that the world seemed to be ripe for conquest.
The second paragraph makes reference to ignoring the latent forces of the Arabian Desert" because Arabia would have seemed what it had been for times immemorial, the refuge of small and bickering nomadic tribes. This reinforces the idea that no one would have predicted a new, powerful empire to emerge from Arabia at that time.
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Both Martin Luther King Jr. and John Kerry opposed the Vietnam War because they both, along with millions of other Americans, thought it was immoral thing to do.
When the United States annexed Texas, the Mexican government decided to cut off diplomatic relations, resulting in the Mexican-American war, in which the Americans defeated Mexico.
Clarity of purpose is a common<span> theme in successful </span>movements<span>. For example, Gandhi's allies questioned his idea to make the salt tax a primary focus, because they favored a plan for more comprehensive change, but he saw that a single issue, even a small one, could </span>unify<span> the nation and break British ...</span>
