The chief ambition of the Venetian city-state in the fourteenth century was
A) financial control of the Holy Roman Empire.
B) inducing the bankruptcy of the papacy.
C) to create a maritime commercial empire throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas.
D) monopolizing the shipping of English wool to Flanders.
E) to wage a Crusade against the Turks in order to gain access to the Holy Land.
C
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Explain the relationship between Manifest Destiny and U.S. imperialism
Answer:
The rapid commercialization of the world's economy saw witness to a phenomenon in which ________ began to purchase more material goods on the market and pay for them by working longer hours.
A. the colonial upper class B. families with modest incomes C. traders D. wealthy merchants
The major goal of Edib during World War I was
a. the defeat of the German armies in the Middle East. b. to regain territory lost to Austria-Hungary. c. the defeat of the British forces in the Middle East. d. Turkish nationalism. e. eliminating the threat of expansionist Russia.
Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.
a. true b. false