iThe correct answer is the Gold Coast and the Cape Verde islands.
Indeed, Prince Henry wanted to circumvent the Muslim blockade of the Mediterranean and be able to import slaves and Gold from African without their intervention. The Portuguese founded a trade fort at the Bay of Arguin (modern day Mauritania). In 1444 they went around the Cap-Vert Peninsula and discovered the Cape Verde Islands in 1456. This strategy ruined some of the Barbary Kingdoms and made Portugal rich and powerful.
A. Nazi leaders were brought to trial for war crimes committed during world war ii.
The Nuremberg Trials took place in Nuremberg, Germany from 1946-1949. The trials were meant to address the war crimes committed by Nazis during World War II.
The members of the Nazi party who committed acts against humanity during the war were brought to trial. Their crimes were addressed as human rights violations and defined as "war crimes" which broke agreed upon rules of war. Both military and civilan members of the Nazi Party were tried for their crimes in particular in regard to the Holocaust. Though the trial was unprecedented it would come to be the standard for the International Court established by the United Nations.
I’m pretty sure it is “it avoided contact with outside influences,” but I’m not sure...
Entangling alliances grew the small conflicts instantly.
When Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia for just the region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, automatically Russia and Germany were in the war.