Answer: It decreased its territory by half
Explanation: Mexico had lost Texas, California, Nevada, Arizona and parts of other present-day American states.
I would say the answer could be chronological thinking or being aware of at least the general progression of human history say from primitive communism of say the Eskimos to feudalism to capitalism and socialism and also major cultural, scientific and technological changes such as in the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution and how one like the Renaissance laid the foundation for the other like the Industrial Revolution.
Every time the Germans ran to the British and said Hail Hitler the British would simple say," Silly Germans you need to be Hailing Churchhill.
The reason why that the United States insist on a broad definition of neutrality after Worl War 1 broke out in 1914 is that because the nation benefited financially from such an expensive interpretation. Arguing that neutral nations should allow to trade freely with belligerents, send ships through the seas. Keeping America's European trade was the very important in 1914.
