<span>The correct answer is the astenosphere. It's part of the earth's crust that's just below the lithosphere and it's really susceptible to plastic flow because the resistance to it is very low. This is where scientists believe that convection occurs in the mantle. It's a very weak and easily deformed piece of the crust.</span>
Representatives of Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million.
Mainly because Prussia did not have any natural frontiers for defense.
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