"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.
Portuguese colonization in the 1400s inaugurated an era of aggressive European expansion across the Atlantic. The Spanish, threatened by the Portuguese monopoly on enslaved Africans and expansion in the Atlantic, started their own colonization project with Christopher Columbus in 1492
Answer:
impacted foreign trade with nations other than Britain
Explanation:
The Embargo Act of 1897 was repealed because it "impacted foreign trade with nations other than Britain."
This is evident in the fact that American traders lost a lot of money during the period of embargo, as it was not only the British, the embargo asked not to trade with but other foreign nations as well.
The purpose of the act was to lessen the power of Britain during their war with France, however, it affected the American merchants more as it prohibits trading with not just the British but other foreign nations. It was later repealed in 1809 as against the scheduled 1810.
Europe's economy improved significantly as new roads and infrastructure were developed.
Former Roman lands were split up and claimed by Germanic kingdoms.
There was a definite decline in Christianity, its followers, and its spread across lands.
Trade increased in the West, resulting in an end to the recession taking place at that time.
