Answer: To replace the existing army.
Explanation:
He was entrusted with the reorganization of the Florentine army. The army was corrupt at that point. That army fictitiously fought under the banner of Florence, and in fact, they were mercenaries who bargained for and defended the interests of those who would offer more. So Machiavelli proposed the introduction of a national militia.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, through employing hard power especially military force, but also soft power.
Explanation:
Imperialism is simply a manifestation of the balance of power and is the process by which nations try to achieve a favorable change in the status quo. The purpose of imperialism is to decrease the strategic and political vulnerability of a nation.
Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples.
The definition of imperialism is the practice of a larger country or government growing stronger by taking over poorer or weaker countries that have important resources. An example of imperialism was England's practices of colonizing India. ... Imperial state, authority, or system of government.
 
        
             
        
        
        
The correct answer is: D) Over one million people were persecuted and killed. 
The Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire from srping 1915 through autumn 1916 under the Young Turk government. It refers to the deportation and mass killing campaign against the Armenians living there. It is estimated that aproximately 1.5 million Armenians populated that region before the genocide, at least 664,00, to 1.2 million were killed. It is important to say that the main objective of the government was to destroy the whole armenian population, that is the reason it is called a genocide. 
Some survivors reached the desert of Syria living in concentration camps starving to death and being massacred until 1916.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Answer:
More countries began to invest in expeditions to the Americas
Explanation:
The Spanish were the first Europeans that managed to conquer large territories in the New World. This led to the downfall of multiple civilizations, such as the Inca civilization. The Incas were a civilization that highly appreciated the gold, for religious purposes not for wealth, and they had it in abundance. The Spanish managed to get their hands on most of it, and big portion of it ended up back in Europe. The word quickly spread out, so the other nations wanted to get a piece of the gold from the New World, and that sparked lot of new expeditions from several different countries.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The second one isn't criticism, it's just a fact.