They were political. The conflicts were centered around trying to change the form of government.
Panama Canal--the land for the canal was provided after aiding the Panamanians in their independence from Columbia.
The Panama Canal allowed for quicker shipping between the west to the east coast of the US.
Assuming you're referring to the United States, the Constitution grants these powers only to the federal government--specifically Congress--meaning that the states have no war powers.
Answer:human sacrifice to the Aztec war god, Huitzilopochtli
The economic basis of the Aztec hegemony was the Valley of Mexico's agriculture, characterized for several centuries by irrigation systems and chinampas, the misnamed “floating gardens” that were actually a raised-field system of agriculture.
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