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The purchase did triple the size of the US
Answers:
A. The Ottoman Turks controlled the silk road, which was the main route from Europe through the Middle East to Asia.
B. demand in Europe for Asia spices, silk, and other goods had grown considerably.
C. traveling overland from Europe to Asia was extremely difficult and hazardous.
The Silk Road, a trading route that lead from Europe to Asia through the Middle East, was controlled by different powers at different times. However, in 1453, the rise of the Ottoman Turks made the journey difficult, expensive or sometimes impossible for European traders.
A new route had to be found because the demand for Asian spices, silk and other goods was enormous. European explorers (in particular, Christopher Columbus) were looking for this new route when they came across America, a land they previously did not know existed.
Answer:
A country may be fighting for either something that they desire, (more land to conquer) or for defending their own country from someone else trying to take from what's theirs.
They taxed the colonies without their consent. Not only that, but the colonists had no opinion in the parliament, making it seem so unfair. And it was. Also, the colonists didn't like the laws passed on by the parliament. For example, the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act, which they rebelled against.
<span>Manufactured goods is the correct answer. On the journey from Europe to West Africa as part of the Slave Triangle or the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, ship owners would bring goods from Europe to Africa to trade for slaves, such as goods from France.</span>
