<span>Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines all became U.S. possessions as a result of the "Spanish-American War", since these were all help previously by the Spanish. </span>
Answer: North-eastern Africa + Near East. A space between Egypt and Mesopotamia. First civilizations were born there, it was there were (probably) agricultural revolution started, where first writing were invented. The first civilized people we are able to identify there are Sumerians and pre-Sumerians (in spite of that we do not know many things about them).
Explanation: territories of today´s Egypt, Izrael, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordania, Iraq and partly Turkey.
<span>The first dynasty that was the first group in China to use written records was the Shang Dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, which ruled from 1600 BC, until 1046 BC., when it was succeeded by the Zhou dynasty. During their reign, the earliest forms of written records originated, so they were the ones responsible for devising the first writing techniques in China, at least.</span>
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the answer is "They were opposed to taking part in secret agreements"