<span>D. The samurai and daimyo restored the emperor to power and worked to reform Japan.
Western influence interrupted Japanese culture and the overthrow of the Shogunate led to the Meiji Restoration.
The Meiji Restoration brought the emperor back to power along with a representative body called the Diet. The Meiji period focused on creating a modern country based on western principles. </span>
"<span>D. He would allow slavery to continue in the South to prevent a war" is the correct answer, since Lincoln's main objective was preserving the Union. He greatly disliked slavery, however.</span>
<span>Found mainly in the Gulf of Mexico, it would be "A. oil" that is Mexico's most important natural resource, since this usually brings the largest amount of revenue. </span>
The mandate system had the effect of creating new borders and new countries that exist to this day in the Middle East. It also set up some future issues for Middle East conflict.
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When World War I erupted, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany as part of the "Central Powers." In the end, the Central Powers lost and the Turkish empire of the Ottomans ceased to exist as an empire. Turkey remained as a country, but it lost control over other territories that it had held before.
The League of Nations created a system for governing former German and Ottoman territories, called "the mandate system." The mandate system authorized a member nation of the League of Nations to govern a former German or Turkish colonial area after the conclusion of World War I. There were mandate territories for former German territories in Africa and Asia, as well for former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
The former Turkish provinces of Syria, Iraq and Palestine in the Middle East were divided into a French mandate territory and British mandate territory. The British mandate rule over Palestine, in particular, has much to do with the history of the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
