The United States wanted to build the Panama Canal in order to save time and money on trading. Before the Panama Canal, people had to sail all the way around Africa in order to get to the other side of the world, which costed much more money and took a lot longer. The US owns the canal because of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty, which gave the rights to the USA to build and manage it.
The Origins of the Cold War<span> are widely regarded to lie most directly in the relations between the </span>Soviet Union<span> and the </span>allies<span> (the </span>United States<span>, </span>Great Britain<span> and </span>France<span>) in the years 1945–1947. Those events led to the </span>Cold War<span> that endured for just under half a century. </span>
Catal Huyuk is located in a relatively high fertile plateau. The plateau is surrounded by mountains on all four sides that gradually lift the terrain up and thus making the plateau have a nest-shape. This is a place that is semi arid, so the landscape has kind of steppe like appearance, with dry looking mountains around it, with the yellowish and brownish colors dominating.
Answer: [D]: "the decline of Europe's large cities" .
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