Japan was one of the first Asian countries to get industrialized/ westernized. With industrialization requires the needs of natural resources, therefore the Japanese sought out territorial expansion to gain more resources from captured territories.
False. Mexico was already independent. The settlers, largely from Tennessee, came in order to support the Texas independence movement. Not Mexican independence from Spain.
The accolade is a ceremony to confer knighthood. ... The monarch then raises the sword just up over the apprentice's head, flips it counterclockwise so that the same side of the blade will come in contact with the knight's body, and places it on his left shoulder.