Kubilai Khan attempted to seize which of the following territories because of its strategic position in the sea trade?
A. Samarkand
B. Japan
C. Java
D. Khmer
Answer: C
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a. Angles. c. Goths. b. Saxons. d. Franks.
Booker T. Washington believed that race relations would improve
A) if African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patient. B) if African Americans defended themselves with rifles. C) if African Americans left the United States. D) if white Americans understood the poverty in which many African Americans lived. E) if African Americans were admitted into all-white private schools.