The answer is A. <span>an abundance of natural resources including salt and gold</span>
Unlike Britain<span>, </span>France<span>, and </span>Russia<span>, the </span>United States wanted<span> to keep </span>trade<span> in </span>china open<span>.
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The European slave trade began with Portugal's exploration of the west coast of Africa in search of a sea trade route to the East. The East had new resources, like spices and silk, and the Portuguese were hoping to acquire these goods without the hard journey by land from Europe to Asia.
<span> by influencing president truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on japan
The comparatively high losses on Iwo Jima and Okinawa lead many U.S military leaders to believe a invasion of mainland Japan would cost (depending on the estimate) upwards of 250,000 American lives, with some estimates going over one Million. This influenced Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs in the interest of a Japanese surrender without a invasion, but also halting the Soviet advance into manchuria. </span>
The Code of Hammurabi can tell us much about ancient Babylonian society, but cannot show us everything. The law code was written for the audience of Babylonian people in its own day, especially the scribes and officers of the law. So there are many questions we would have from a distance much later in history that people then would have understood without needing explanation. The intention of the law code was to inform people of laws and punishments, not to give later generations a full view of the whole of Babylonian life. The law code was prepared by those in power in the government of Hammurabi -- we don't get any response from the people or indication of how the people then viewed the laws. And ultimately, the law code is written in a detached, impersonal way -- as legal documents generally are written. We don't get a feel for the personal lives or feelings of people living at that time in Babylonia.
