The Arab Spring effect food prices because the price of oil sky rocketed. This made shipping and imports of food much more expensive. However, now that oil prices have fallen again the price of food has remained the same.
D is the one, but it is a trick question. Catholic Spain DID try to get the Netherlands to convert to Catholicism and remain under Spanish rule, but it never worked! The Netherlands resisted, and asked for (and got) English help in resisting the Spanish overlords. It led to the Thirty Years War, in which the Netherlands fought back against the Spanish.
Spain tried everything from the Inquisition to bloody reprisals, and the persecution of the Dutch Protestants. The English "loaned" Willliam of Orange to the Netherlands, who defeated the Spanish army.
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Gorbachev brought perestroika to the Soviet Union's foreign economic sector with measures that Soviet economists considered bold at that time. His program virtually eliminated the monopoly that the Ministry of Foreign Trade had once held on most trade operations.
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