They hoped to discover the Northwest Passage or a direct water route to Asia.
The complex naval event in the Gulf of Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam, that was presented to the U.S. Congress on August 5, 1964, as two unprovoked attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and that led to the Gulf of Tonkin
Both countries engaged in the mass killing of innocent people in conquered territories.
The main event that led the United State to take a more active role in the world affairs was World War II, since the US emerged from this war an economic superpower. It was also clear that some nation needed to "fill the void" left by the relative fall of the British Empire.
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The answers are Ancient China and Mesopotamia
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