The execution of the last Inca ruler, Atahualpa was the act of the conquistador Pizarro, crucial in overthrowing the Inca. Option C is correct.
Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador who led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. He kidnapped and killed Incan emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain. On 10 November 1509, Pizarro sailed from Spain to the New World along with Alonso de Ojeda on an expedition to Gulf of Urabá in Tierra Firme.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
The calling of the militia had the desired effect of essentially ending the Whiskey Rebellion. By the time the militia reached Pittsburgh, the rebels had dispersed and could not be found. The militia apprehended approximately 150 men and tried them for treason. A paucity of evidence and the inability to obtain witnesses hampered the trials. Two men, John Mitchell and Philip Weigel, were found guilty of treason, though both were pardoned by President Washington. By 1802, then President Thomas Jefferson repealed the excise tax on whiskey. Under the eye of President Washington, the nascent United States survived the first true challenge to federal authority.
Answer:
Meiji Restoration.
Explanation:
The Meiji Restoration was the political upheaval that marked the end of the reign of the military nobility in Japan in 1867. It opened the way to a radical modernization and westernization of Japan.
During this period the Tokugawa shogunate was dissolved, so that power in the country returned to the emperor and his government. The land was redistributed into the prefectures still in use today, with a governor at the head of each prefecture. The samurai lost their right to be Japan's only armed forces. The Meijio government had the army modernized according to Western example, so that from then on someone's social background was no longer important to be allowed to serve in the army. In addition, Japan opened up to Western technologies and ideas, after centuries of trying to keep them out as much as possible.
D. threatened to use nuclear weapons on the communist
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union followed Marxism-Leninism. The party pursued state socialism which involved a nationalized and planned economy. Without individual motivation, as was encouraged in the U.S., the people grew tired of working for the State. The Soviet Union might have survived if restructuring had taken place years before Gorbachev tried it and their economy had become a market economy. Instead it was allowed to grow stale and to stagnant which caused the collapse of the Soviet Union.
