As for general policy, Catherine understood that Russia needed an extended period of peace during which to concentrate on domestic affairs and that peace required a cautious foreign policy. The able Count Nikita Panin, whom she placed in charge of foreign affairs, was well chosen to carry out such a policy.
Catherine did not advocate democratic
reforms but addressed some of the modernization trends. In 1775, she decreed a Statute for the Administration of the Provinces of the Russian Empire. The statute sought to efficiently govern Russia by increasing population and dividing the country into provinces and districts.
North Africa, Spain, Macedonia and Greece.
Japan's sinking of a US gunboat during its assault on nanking heightened tensions between the two countries four years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. on the morning of Dec 12.1937, the US gunboat PANAY was anchored in the middle of the Yangtze River 27 miles upriver from nanking.
The establishment and spread of the Islamic religion
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decline of trade on the silk road