Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards and westwards, adding territories which included the Crimea, Belarus and Lithuania.
Well the first tax was put on <span>glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea.</span>
Hebrews<span> were nomadic people. They lived in the </span>ancient<span> Middle East. Around 1400 BC they settled in Canaan, the country on the eastern coast of Mediterranean sea, the territory of modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
</span><span>They believed in a single, all-powerful god. </span>
The principle cause of the war was that those states harbored and supported the actions of pirates against American shipping vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.
