The correct answer is A. Commanders encouraged their soldiers to be as brutal as possible.
The massacre of Nanking was a series of crimes against humanity committed by the Japanese army while they were occupying the city of Nanking and its surroundings in 1937. These crimes involved killings of civilians and prisoners, torture, violations, plunder, and other several atrocities. According to different estimates, the number of dead civilians rises above 300 000. This brutality was a direct result of the orders of the Japanese commanders: prince Asaka and general Matsui, among other Japanese military leaders.
Liu Bang was the first emperor of Han dynasty,succeeding the Qin dynasty, approximately from 2200 to 2193 BCE. Qin dynasty had implemented the legalism, a philosophical conception,which was based on the strict obedience to the law, and harsh punishments to those who disobeyed.
He somewhat respected someof the structureof the Qin emperor´s government, but he adopted Confucianism as a doctrine more than that of legalism, becoming into themost noticeable trace of his reign, so the answer is <em>He wasmore lenient and was guided by Confucian ideals.</em>
Answer: Portugal
Explanation: In 1494, the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula divided the New World between them (in the Treaty of Tordesillas), and in 1500 navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed in what is now Brazil and laid claim to it in the name of King Manuel I of Portugal.
