Peter the Great recognized the weaknesses of the Russian state and aspired to reform it following Western European models. ... While the tsar did not abandon Orthodoxy as the main ideological core of the state, he started a process of westernization of the clergy and secular control of the church.
It is the Himalayan mountains.
Land surrounding the Panama Canal is very fertile. The warm tropical weather is good for growing things. The original river and later the building of canal made trading very convenient. So there are a lot of industries developed in that region.
Which time periods exactly?
The Dutch East India Company except "<span>d. help spread christianity to the east," since their goals were purely economical and financial--they had no interest in extending effort into other spheres such as religion. </span>
