The answer D: The businessmen and merchants.
        
             
        
        
        
Japan aggressively expanded the territories under its influence, taking over parts of China, invading territories claimed by the Soviet Union, and fighting across the Pacific during World War II.
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Many of the English colonies in North America founded with practising its religion freely without any threat. 
Explanation:
Religion played a significant role in the establishment of the English colonies in North America. The reasons for colonization linked to political, economic, and religion. Many colonies founded to support Britain like Jamestown and the Carolinas. Puritans and Pilgrims arrived in the late seventeenth century. Both religious group influenced by William Bradford and John Winthrop to lead their colonies (Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay) to greatness. The establishment of Plymouth was started by Separatists fleeing for Holland in 1608. Many religious like the Quakers and Puritans formed their colonies based on religious beliefs. They arrive in America to escape persecution in England. William Penn's colony (Pennsylvania) was known for the sheltering of Quakers. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: 1: direct democracy
2: dictatorship
4: Articles of Confederation
7: federal government
5: In the Middle Ages, European monarchs claimed the rule by "divine right". It strengthened the monarch's authority to rule.
9: Great Britain is an example of a monarch, containing a prime minister, as well as other ministers
11: Your teacher would be an executor if he or she ruled without the will of the people in mind.
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