While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. In fact, the opposite occurred. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.
The correct answer is - Two once mighty empires were collapsing because of internal strife and foreign invasions.
The Byzantine Empire managed to outlive Rome by approximately 1,000 years, but the way in which both, the Eastern and the Western Empire ended is pretty much the same.
Both Rome and Byzantine were very large empires, but as they were nearing their end, they were gradually losing their territories until the only remaining part of the empire was the most important city and the closest area around it.
The fall of these two empires was because of internal strife, where the aristocracy was only concerned about their personal interest and wealth, while totally forgetting the country, but also because of the multiple strong military forces that emerged on the scene and weakened them.
Answer:
A. They restricted European trade to the city of Canton.
Explanation:
Haijin was a series of related Chinese isolationist policies that restricted private maritime trade and coastal settlement, during most of the Ming Dynasty and some of the Qing. Imposed, in principle, to fight against the Japanese piracy called wakō the prohibition was finally ineffective, the contraroi imposed great difficulties in the coastal cities as well as the honest merchants of the sea. Piracy descended to insignificant levels after the general abolition of politics in 1567. Subsequently the Qing Dynasty adopted a modified form. This produced the Canton system of the Thirteen Factories, but also the opium contraband that led to the opium wars with Great Britain and other European powers in the 19th century. The policy was also imitated by both Tokugawa Japan (as Sakoku) and by Joseon of Korea, which became known as the "Hermit Kingdom", before they opened militarily in 1853 and 1876.
D. The reasoning behind this is because Adolfo hitler and Benito Mussolini starting fighting because they both wanted power to take over certain countries .
