Answer: Texas being admitted as a slave state.
At this time the U.S. was having a struggle of maintaining an equal balance between slave and free states. Texas joining the Union would mean an imbalance because Texas was a country with slaves and insisted on maintaining it.
Answer: In orthodox church it is almost a compulsory for priests. In Latin America (both today and in the past as well) it is a mark of (especially in younger guys) of being of Marxist or leftist (or "alternative") conviction. In Europe it is not like that anymore ...today it is much more question of aesthetics and fashion (in EU).
Explanation: of course, we can take a different, unpolitical approach. We can look at these things from psychological or psychoanalytical perspective.
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A, the use of standard Arabic coins made it easier to buy and sell goods.
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The main goal was to partition Africa, or divide it (not with land, with government)
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During the century that followed the reign of Mehmed II, the Ottoman Empire achieved the peak of its power and wealth. New conquests extended its domain well into central Europe and throughout the Arab portion of the old Islamic caliphate, and a new amalgam of political, religious, social, and economic organizations and traditions was institutionalized and developed into a living, working whole
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