Weak defense in their industrial situation.
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To become stronger. This is in WWI right? They supported eachother.
Portugal is the European Kingdom that led in European Exploration in the 15th Century in the age of discovering, exploration and mapping coasts of Africa, Canada, Asia and Africa. Under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal took the role to search for a sea route to Asia by sailing south around Africa, and during this process, Portugal accumulated wealthy knowledge on the geography and navigation of the Atlantic ocean.
In the last decade, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean and "discovered" a new continent while searching or a sea route to the Indies.
In 1498, Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India.
<span>Facts could be items like "The Civil War began in 1861" or "Fort Sumter was in South Carolina" or "Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States." The opinions could be items like "The South was fighting for an ideal it believed in" or "Slavery was a moral good for the South" or "The North was usurping on the sovereignty of the several states."</span>
The correct answer here would be C.
Gregor Mendel was an Austrian priest, mathematician and most importantly a botanist. He is considered to be the father of classical genetics. He was among the first people to find about the dominant and recessive traits that are passed randomly from the parents to the offspring.