B. <em>1998</em>. It was in this year that Osama bin Laden co-signed a <em>fatwa</em> (a non-binding legal pronunciation made by a religious authority) with Ayman al-Zawahiri, stating that the killing of North American and their allies was an "individual duty for every Muslim", to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and Mecca from their grip". In the same year a series of U.S. embassies bombings (by terrorist cells linked or incited by al-Qaeda), thorough East African countries killed hundreds of people.
I don’t know what timeline map you have, but it was for the expansion of American Democracy.
Answer: I believe that it is D
Explanation:
This is because Islam used lots of trade routes to get to lots of places. Though the military conquest took over lots of places.
https://www.sutori.com/story/enlightenment-and-the-french-revolution