Answer:
After the visits of the US mission of commodore M. Perry in 1853-1854, the Japanese elites realized that Japan had become backward and that it had to reform quickly in order to avoid shairing the fate of China or other Asian countries that had turned into European colonies. They decided to launch a process of modernization and quickly catch up with the West. That was the prevailing idea at the start of the Meiji era. However, quick modernization was accompanied with the determination to retain the most important elements of Japanese culture and character. Actually, along its road to becoming one of the most advanced nations of the planet, Japan has striven to strike a balance between assimilation of foreign influences and keeping the distinctive features of Japaneseness. By 1895, Japan had entered the exclusive club of the global great powers by decisively defeating China, and in 1905 it was the turn of Russia. The Meiji reforms were undoubtedly successful, achieving the goals of fast modernization and industrialization set at the beginning, but retaining the key elements of Japanese culture and identity.
Explanation:
Cortez is the leader of the Aztecs and Pizzaro is the leader of a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Inca Empire.
<span>the "Otranto Disaster" was a ship that collided with another ship that killed a lot of people so it should be C.</span>
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was. In 1991 it was set up in the United Kingdom, in the city of London, at a time to promote change to the economies of the countries of Eastern Europe and the countries of Central Asia, to encourage them to move their businesses towards western Europe and to be able to rebuild the economies of those countries, which were affected in the post-Cold War era.
The Babylonians practiced polytheism.
