The main reason why Spain decided to support Columbus' voyages of exploration was because he promised that he would bring gold and spices back from the New World. Another reason was that the Spanish Crown was interested in spreading Christianity.
South African nationality<span> has been influenced primarily by the racial dynamics that have structured </span>South African<span> society throughout its development. The country's colonial history led to the immigration (or importation) of different racial and ethnic groups into one shared area. Power dispersion and inter-group relations led to European dominance of the state, allowing it to directly shape </span>nationality<span> although not without internal division or influence from the less empowered races.</span>
The US believed in isolation, if another country attacked the US that is the only way that we would get involved, therefore we tried to stay out of the mass killings and havoc that the Germans and Japanese were creating until we felt that it involved the US. The US did not want to pick a side and have to stay loyal to that side and go to war when that country did because of the alliance. The US finally joined in to help the allied powers to supply them with weapons/military troops. They did not enter the war until December 1941.
Answer: Battuta left his native home in Morocco to order to comply with one of the five commandments of the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca, and already expand his legal studies in Egypt and Syria. In his journey he covered a distance greater than that of his contemporary Marco Polo, covering the whole west, center, and north of Africa, part of southern and eastern Europe, the Middle East, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China.
