Looking at Map 25.1, "Russian Expansion Under the Early Tsars," which of these explains the direction of Russian expansion in this period?
A) the weakness of Poland
B) the drive to the Black Sea
C) Ottoman decline
D) the lack of large states to the south and east
D
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Besides insulting President McKinley, the de Lome letter
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