<span>The purpose of building the Suez Canal was to allow ships to travel between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, which would increase trade between the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.</span>
During the 1930's Britain and France were too scared to respond to the fascist aggression as they didn't;t want another war ads a. they didn't have enough money as the Great Depression had just hit, b. they didn't have a powerful military as they had destroyed half of there machines and only had a militia around the world to control there colonies franc was mostly the same but it did have a defensive line along the border of France and Germany called the Gustav line but as we know it didn't really work.
The correct answer is <span>one clenched fist. The size of a fist would be used as a unit of measure, which was common at that time where people also used elbows and thumbs for size. Foot comes from old times and is still used today, just like stones. These are archaic sizes before the metric system.</span>
Improve of their economy, religion and glory. They wanted to improve their economy for instance by acquiring more spices