Imperialist rivalries, new political alignments, and aggressive militarism set the stage for world war i. in russia, political factions erupted into civil war after the bolshevik revolution. consider these developments. then explain how war is shaped by political motivations and relationships, as well as by technological innovations. include the following topics: tensions that eventually resulted in world war i and effects of militarism major alliances during world war i new military technology, such as trench warfare and mustard gas the revolutions in russia and the rise of the bolsheviks the legacy left after world war i.

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.