The french and the Indian war both doubled their national debt
Ask away ! I'm especially good with American history, for instance the Boston massacre, and the Boston tea party. As well as anything that deals with Colonial times !!
The Japanese saw themselves as superior out of all of the Asian races, everybody was seen as second or even third class citizens.
No, it is generally false that countries sought new trade routes to avoid the high prices associated with the Mediterranean, since transporting goods by seas was almost always cheaper and more efficient than transporting by land.