According to legends, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to please his Queen, Amytis when she missed seeing the green hills and sceneries of her native land. The hanging gardens was one of the named seven wonders of the ancient world long ago. Answer is B.
It would be the "United States" that <span>emerged as a global superpower shortly after World War II, due largely to its manufacturing capability but also because it had been protected by two massive oceans. </span>
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During the invasion of Poland in 1939 the Nazis chose to put Jews under their control in camps.
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Hitler envisioned a new Europe to pursue his <em>Lebensraum </em>plans to create a "living space" for the German people. Before 1939, Jews in Germany faced discrimination and harassment. It was not until the outbreak of war however, that the <em>Final Solution </em>for the eradication of Jews was enacted.
C. Prior to monotheism, most religions were based on worshipping many gods.
They used to worship anything from nature. After Muhammad rose up as a leader, all of that stopped, and Arabic people started to believe in one god only.
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The first documented settlement of Europeans in the Americas was established by Norse people led by Leif Erikson around 1000 AD in what is now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored by Spain. English exploration began almost a century later. Sir Walter Raleigh established the short-lived Roanoke Colony in 1585. The 1607 settlement of the Jamestown colony grew into the Colony of Virginia and Virgineola (settled unintentionally by the shipwreck of the Virginia Company's Sea Venture in 1609) quickly renamed The Somers Isles (though the older Spanish name of Bermuda has resisted replacement). In 1620, a group of Puritans established a second permanent colony on the coast of Massachusetts. Several other English colonies were established in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. With the authorization of a royal charter, the Hudson's Bay Company established the territory of Rupert's Land in the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The English also established or conquered several colonies in the Caribbean, including Barbados and Jamaica.
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