I think that Hitler saw in Austria the chance to increase the number of loyal, German soldiers - Austrians speak German and are culturally similar so it was easy to include them into the German army and so quickly acquire a great number of loyal soldiers who spoke the language and shared the culture with the Germans.
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Christopher Columbus was instructed by the King, and Queen of Spain to travel to the new world in search of valuable natural resources. Columbus had his own inclinations to travel being that the idea that the world was spherical had not yet been a well accepted fact.
C. Many women replaced men in jobs on farms and in factories.
They were needed badly due to shortage of men. World War 2 saw epic destruction level and the mobilization of more than 100 million soldiers which resulted in the shortage of workers at factories and farms back home. So women were offered the domestic duties.
It means how many miles are between Amarna and thebes. use a ruler and the scale.