b. Northwest
The Northwest Passage was a presumed pathway through which sailors could easily sail through the Americas to reach the Pacific Ocean and India. However, it did not exist and sailors were forced to travel around the southern tip of South America until the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s.
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A. Supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
Answer:
D. To divide Indian lands into small, privately owned units
Explanation:
The correct answers are B) death of the emperor and C) invasions.
The two reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty were the death of the emperor and invasions.
In the middle of the 17th century, the reserves pf silver considerably diminished in the Ming empire and people started to suffer from hunger. The Emperor did nothing to alleviate the situation and the people got angry at him. The Jurchen people, now called the Manchu, declared war against the Ming Emperor. The leader of the Manchu was Nurhaci. Ming Emperor, Chongzhen, hanged himself, and the combination of this, internal discontent, and invasions, ended the Ming period.
