B. He conquered the last of the Song Dynasty and brought China under Mongol rule.
Explanation:
Kublai Khan is one of the best known Mongol rulers, both for good and for bad. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan, and unlike his grandfather and father, he ruled in a manner that promoted tolerance among the different groups of people. One of the things by which Kublai Khan is best known is that he was the first Mongol to conquer and rule all of China.
Kublai Khan managed to conquer the last independent Chinese state, the Song Dynasty, incorporated it into the Mongol Empire, and formed the Yuan Dynasty. While this was seen as a great success and promised a long lasting and powerful empire, Kublai Khan also made some mistakes (mostly military ones) that actually started off the decline of the empire.
Answer:
The correct answer is A. The government of Iran had difficulty preventing information from getting out of the country during the 2009 election protests because ordinary citizens used thousands of different Internet file sharing sites and e-mail accounts, as well as Twitter, to transmit information.
Explanation:
On June 12, 2009, presidential elections were held in Iran, the favorite of which was the reform candidate Mir Hosejn Musavi. The next day, it was announced that the acting head of state, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had received more than two-thirds of the votes. Mousavi marked the results from being falsified and his followers took to the streets. They wore green ribbons (the color of Mousavi's election campaign), uniting liberal clergy, secular intellectuals and national minorities (Musavi is of Azerbaijani origin). Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Tehran, where initially peaceful events grew into violence. The protests spread to other cities, and Iranians living abroad also joined. The core of the movement was students using social networks to organize demonstrations.
The colony of Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe as a safe home for the poor and persecuted from Britain, to find relief from poverty and persecution, it was chosen as a place for English Settlers who had been imprisoned as debtors.
