Very long story short, farming and sugar, as well as a port to china, east india and asia. and the islands were a prime place for a navel base.
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I would say answer B. The other answers are during the Revoluionary War that was caused BY the Decleration of Independance.
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Because the Turks see the Hagia Sophia as an important artifact. Also, a tradition from the Ottoman times states that Islam is the fulfiller of Judaism and Christianity, and they are all Abrahamic and that no division should take place between the three. So, the Turkish government has taken this duty into their hands and are now preserving the Hagia Sophia for the younger generations of the world to see how the Turkish government and holy Muslims want to keep peace between the religions of the world, and not only that, but how the Turkish government preserved these artifacts to show the later generations of the world intact history.
It is not really certain as to when the writing systems in China started but there are evidence that during the Shang dynasty, pictographs and ideographs were already inscribed in bones although the system was already quite complex that it could have well originated many years before.
The Mississippi Delta area is not heavily forest now because it was cleared for agriculture (cotton).
