It is a state with very little population and/or small land area
What happens is the expanding water molecules begin to form ice crystals. Yes ice is a mineral. Finally yes a glacier is a rock
In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.
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The last statement is the correct answer. However, the second question is theoretically historically correct, for Иосиф Сталин (Joseph Stalin) practically controlled the entire government of the USSR with his oppressive ultra-authoritarian non-democratic Stalinist-"Communist" regime.
Answer:
Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
Explanation:
The desire of elites for hard-to-find luxury items
from distant parts of the Eurasian network, as well as
the accumulation of wealth, especially among
merchants who participated in the trade, motivated
long-distance commerce. Sustaining the commerce were the support of empires and smaller states that benefited directly from the trade; the spread of religious traditions, including Islam and Buddhism, that through shared beliefs tied merchants and sometimes whole societies together over wide regions; and the development of technologies like larger ships and the magnetic compass.
