Answer:
Explanation:
Every year, 20 typhoons hit the Philippines, a country also threatened by earthquakes and volcanos. These natural disasters have grave economic consequences. The country is not just threatened by storms, but by flooding, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, too.
Mild and dry it has warm summers and cool winters
Stagnate. A stalemate. Due to the trench warfare.
Answer:
The use of the abacus was expanded and refined.
Explanation:
The abacus was invented during the Yuan Dynasty which lasted between 1206AD till 1368AD and then it was expanded and refined by the Ming Dynasty (1368AD-1644AD).
There have been archaeological proof of this as the writings of Tao Zongyi describes in his book that the new servants, unlike the older and more experienced ones were "just like abacus heads" and that they would not move unless they were made to move. This bears credence to the fact that the abacus was already widely used then.
An abacus was used to count numbers.
baron de Montesquieu admired a mixed government due to the division of power between the various divisions. He admired governments with the monarch as the head and a body representing the people that also acted to check the powers of the monarch to avoid abuse