B. It was a center of trade on the Mediterranean
For more than 1000 years Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine empire. It had an strategic position for trade, and many trading routes passed through there. It was the biggest and richest city in all of Europe.
The Catholic Experiment. ... The Southern Colonies ... than the 1600s, Catholics were still a persecuted minority in the seventeenth century. ... Consequently, most immigrants did not cross the Atlantic in family units but as individuals.
I think the answer is <span>a. the growth of radical Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims that entered this would likely go to terrorism. Those that displayed their extreme Islam fundamentalist are usually driven to make it like a religious war that would promote their religion.</span>
