The effect of Louis XIV’s reign on the French army is that he
was able to make the French army to be loyal to him and in the same time, to be
strong—mainly because of the reason of how the state fed, paid, trained and
supplied the army that could be at least 30,000 of them.
Coastal lands are also known as lowlands.
The answer is
C. The Islamic invasion
A.The empire was regularly attacked by Arab Muslims.
The Byzantine Empire was a prized region to obtain for the Arab Muslims.
The Arab Muslim Empire regularly attacked the Byzantine Empire. The goal was to gain access to the Anatolia peninsula which was home to Constantinople. Constantinople was the trading center to Europe and and to Asia. Many emperors made the Byzantine Empire a goal and it fell in 1453 under the leadership of Mehmed II.
This depends somewhat on what you classify as "west," but generally speaking, yes, this is true, since it was in Ancient Athens that the first democracy was formed.
