Answer:
Investment in the Americas reduced disparities in Europe.
Cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793
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Answer: B. Russia’s location and climate
Napoleon’s Grande Armée did not expect the cold climate in Russia to be so brutal. The French soldiers were also starving because the routes to supply were too long and difficult. Napoleon thought initially that he would quickly destroy the Russian army , but these constantly slipped away so the French army had to catch up with them in that vast and outstretched land.
Answer:
B) Battle of Tours
Explanation:
The Battle of Tours , fought in 732 AD, stopped the Arabic expansion in Europe, after a wave of Arabic conquests had taken Spain. After Spain, the next logical target was France. Had the Arabs won a victory at Tours, Islam would have surely spread in Europe. But Christian armies managed to defeat the Muslim intruders and made them retreat. So, Muslim, Arabic presence was confined to Spain until the 15th century, where Córdoba and Granada became centers of learning. Academic and intellectual exchanges between Arabs in the Iberic Peninsula and Christian Europe took place and allowed the latter to recover classic Greek culture, for example.
