The Shiites believed that Ali, Muhammad's son in law was the fourth rightly guided caliph, as he was related to Muhammad. This caused the first division in Islam as two groups, the Shiites and the Sunnis formed.
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1. Financing a business
2. Distributing the benefits of Owning a business
3. Controlling a business
4. How businesses are are taxed
5. Risk
6. Ownership
Cold weather is the best answer!
a) - Poland was also at war with the Soviet, unlikely it would help
b) Soviet Union has only very limited access to the Mediterranean, which likely was completly cut off at the time anyway
c) they could have it, but China was too busy fighting its own war!