It was right in the middle of the Bosporus, Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. So, all trade between North Africa, Asia and Europe, had to pass through the capital (Constantinople), causing the Byzantine Empire to become very wealthy due to taxes they charged between the trading.
The President of the confederacy was Jefferson Davis. He was elected unopposed on November 6, 1861 as President of the Confederate States of America.
He was elected to serve for a term lasting 6 years. Before the election, he had already been serving for almost a whole year as temporary president.
Jefferson was president of the Confederate states of America during the civil war. He was personally in charge of the confederate war plans. However he was not able to find a way to defeat the Union States.
Answer:he colonists believed that King George III and the Parliament limited the colonists' individual rights by the acts that they passed. The colonists believed that their rights were limited by being taxed on various goods and services while at the same time, the money from these taxes did not benefit the colonies.
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New York
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Palatine immigrants settled in the Hudson Valley, bringing the legend of the Belsnickel with them.
Answer: He decribed a plant that had a flower which was soft and red and had no thorns on it.
Explanation: Marion Lee Kempner was a Marine lieutenant from Galveston, Texas and he wrote the letter to his great-aunt, Fannie Adoue, on Oct. 20, 1966 where he described a plant he said he saw and made him think of her.
In the letter, he detailed how his platoon was finishing up a three-day patrol, struggling over steep hills in nearly impenetrable jungle, when one of his men turned to him and pointed at a rather distinguished-looking plant with soft red flowers waving in the downpour and said that was the first plant he had seen that day which didn't have thorns on it.
Less than three weeks later, Lieutenant Kempner was killed in a mine explosion near Tien Phu at the age of 24.
