The Missouri Compromise maintained balance between Northerners, who were mostly abolitionists, and Southerners, who generally supported slavery.
An anvil is something that is used to hammer metal into shape on. Von Billow meant that Germany would either be that which hammers the metal, or that which gets hammered on.
Comissioned by <u>Pope Paul.</u>
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The picture shows St. Peter's martyrdom. According to an ancient and well-known account, when Peter was sentenced to death in Rome, he requested that he be crucified upside down because he did not feel that a man was worthy of being slain in the same manner as Jesus Christ.
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Answer:
The first people who settled what is now Russia and Ukraine were the Eastern Slavs. To some extent it was also the Finnic populations from the north.
Explanation:
Three modern countries claim the Kievan Rus as their ancestors, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
Between the 9-13th centuries, nomadic slavs began to form unified villages and towns. It was led by the Slavic Prince Oleg.
Eventually by the 13th century a modern Kievan Rus was established. It was a loose federation of various eastern Slavic people who became very powerful in the region.
Their power declined but the development a unique culture and language eventually gave rise to the mighty Russian Empire.
