1. It's all of the above
2. I think it's b
It means that the activities that they do are just to bring the other person down (usually during campaigning)
I think the first one is Royal Society. and the other one is I think France.
Answer:
Gunsmiths made it easier for soldiers to get the needed guns and supplies for the soldiers to fight with. Communication improvements: The telephone made it so people could ask for a certain person and talk to them almost instantly. Transportation improvements: Cars and boats made it so people could get supplies faster for making things. Mass production: Factories made it so they could make large quantities of things faster.
Explanation:
If you're referring to Napoleon's Spanish Iberian peninsula campaign between France and the coalition of Spain, Portugal and England from 1808-1814 there were three critical reasons for its failure and one main critical importance for its failure.
The three critical reasons for its failure:
1) Napoleon greatly underestimated the fierceness and will of the Spanish fighting spirit.
2) Chiefly because of reason 1) above, the vastness of the Spanish frontier and the resources required to occupy & hold territory bled his army dry.
3) Napoleon did not expect the coalition arrayed against him to hold as strongly as it did.
The main importance of its failure was that, due to Napoleon's overly ambitious tenancy to overstretch and string-out his resources, his other armies in other theaters of war were left under strengthened.
