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The two main resources that people are in conflict over are oil and water.
Water is an important resource in the Middle East because of how limited it is. Most of the region is dry. Conflicts occurred when countries are using more than their share of the water resources.
If your choices are the following:
The cotton gin
The flying shuttle
The water frame
The shuttle fram
The textile innovation reduced the labor force needed to operate looms by half is The cotton gin. So the answer is the first option.
They were both concerned about Russia because it was a large and influential country
The word is used for the Iconoclastic Controversy that shook the Byzantine Empire for more than 100 years. Open hostility toward religious representations began in 726 when Emperor Leo III publicly took a position against icons; this resulted in their removal from churches and their destruction.
