I studied this a while back, the answer is B.
The correct answer is - he is the current president of Chechnya.
Ramzan Kadyrov is the the current president of Chechnya. Unlike the former presidents of Chechya that were in constant conflict with Russia, he is actually in very nice relations with the Russian authorities and they have a nice collaboration and mutual support in the recent years.
1) Gunpowder
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires rose as great powers and expanded largely during the 16th century due to a great extent to the use of gunpowder weapons. Armies from the three empires acquired this new military technology which resulted very useful for their campaigns and for keeping the power.
2) Strong political leadership
The three empires experienced an era of expansion under the rule of strong emperors: Suleiman the Magnificent in the Ottoman Empire, Shah Abbas I in the Safavid Empire, and Akbar in the Mughal Empire. The three of them carried out political, legal, economic, and military reforms and led their empires during a time of cultural bloom and economic growth.
Answer:
The Portuguese transformed maritime trade in Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century by using Trade as a means of taxing ships that where not of Portugal or Portuguese
Explanation:
The coming of the Portuguese was a very important towards the change in Indian Ocean maritime trade in the sixteenth century, it did not entirely changed the trade, because the Portuguese
did not exceed their authority beyond a few ports, and they had to keep up with Indian merchants and regional states, an example is the Sultanate of Aceh and Ottoman Empire.
However,The Portuguese transformed maritime trade in by using the method of taxing non-Portuguese ships that traded or did business in the region.
