The British and the Spaniards attempted to seize Saint-Domingue amid the French Revolution on the grounds that the French were excessively occupied with their own particular upset, making it impossible to battle for their province. Given its key area and the accessibility of crude materials and minerals, the two nations tried to control it.
Alliances in ww1 were different from ww2 because the entente in ww1 made up of serbia,russia,france,britan,japan and italy later america and all allied in a sort of balance of power and too keep germany,austria-hungary,and the ottomans down. Russia allied the serbians in order to exert its influence in the balkans while france allied the russians because france was still in dismay and insulted after the defeat to the germans during the unification of germany and britian allied the belgians after the germans invasion of belgium.In ww2 the alliances were in a preemptive attempt to deter any further wars into happening while germany and italy allied since they were insulted and humiliated after the previous war while also sharing a similar ideology of facsim along with japan which all 3 had a want for world domination and agreed to assist one another in the endevours
Slate is much more commonly found in wet areas, especially around rivers in the United States, so it wouldn't be very available to Natives who were more inland.
