Immediate conflicts:
... The USA had atomic weapons and the USSR did not. (The US would not share that technology with the Soviets.)
... The USSR did not assure that free and fair elections took place in Eastern Europe -- it saw to it that Soviet-aligned governments were installed there.
... Tensions over the East Germany / West Germany and East Berlin / West Berlin division of territory.
Deeper causes:
The USA was committed to capitalism and democratic institutions of government.
The USSR was committed to communism and imposed authoritarian government.
The Cold War was mostly a tension between these worldviews.
Answer:
(B) that Dante and Giotto were the most prominent artists of the proto-renaissance period
Explanation:
The author tries to show how Dante and Giotto were important and influential artists of the proto-renaissance period, even presenting works in different media, the two managed to capture the intimate, the conscience and the sensations, which were characteristic characteristics of the works of art of that period. These characteristics and the importance of these two men for the construction of art and literature is what has made them influential artists until today, and they can be even more influential than they were in their times.
It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.
After the thirteenth amendment abolished or ended slavery the fourteenth amendment gave the newly freed slaves US citizenship because they were born on US soil. This amendment still holds that any individual born in the US or it’s territories is a citizen.
<span><span>The Safavid and Ottoman dynasties were both of Turkish ethnicity. The Safavid empire extended from the Caucasia ( Armenia, Azeribijan, etc.) to India, Iraq, the Persian Gulf, and parts of central Asia and the Caspian Sea.The Ottoman empire, on the other hand, ruled the the rest of the Islamic empire (Middle East, Balkans, and North Africa).
The Ottoman empire was older and stronger than the young Safavid empire, but the Ottomans were alarmed as the Safavid strength and influence grew and felt their interest was threatened. Moreover, the Safavid followed Shia Islam, while the Ottoman people were followers of Sunni/Sufi Islam.
But the main reasons for the conflict are rather political than for sectarian religious factors as many try to force this idea of Sunni/Shia conflict.
As the Safavid empire grew, it pushed its territories as far as Iraq and eastern Turkey, carving for itself a considerable chunk of Ottoman territory. This was the point when the Ottomans felt in danger and waged war on their cousins the Safavid.</span><span>
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