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In 1279, Kublai became the first Mongol to rule all of China when he conquered the last of the Song loyalists. ... Despite adopting and improving on many Chinese systems and ideals, Kublai and his Mongols did not want to become Chinese – they kept many of their own customs and remained unassimilated to Chinese life
D. Castiglione
Cesare Borgia was the Son of the Pope and Cosimo de Medici's family ruled Florence, so neither have anything to do with the royal family of Mantua. Machiavelli wrote the Prince, so that is not the correct answer either. Castiglione was part of the Royal family of Mantua and did write the Book of the Courtier. So D is the correct answer.
In chronological order the events are in the order 4, 1, 2, 3
Medicine Lodge Treaty was signed 1867.
Wash*ta (it thinks it's a curse word) Massacre: 1868
Red River War: 1874-75
Reconstruction treaties: 1866
The basic principals of Uniformitarianism were enough to give geologists a sequencial history of the earth but absolute dating using isotope data from igneous rocks gathered using several different techniques (strontium/rubidium, parent/daughter isotope decay rates) and with the combination of these two geologists were able to develop the geological time scale.