Some causes of nations joining world war 1
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Military rivalry between powerful nations
- US: the Zimmermann Telegram and the sinking of the Lusitania
- Colonies: The wish that if they fought for for their European countries they could be free, and so they join the war, making it a World War effectively
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a trade route that connected Rome in the west to China in the east
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