The type of warfare described in the passage most directly helps to explain which of the following sixteenth-century developments?
A. The growing political influence of religious scholars at the Ottoman court
B. The granting of substantial religious and legal autonomy to Christian subjects in the Ottoman Empire
C. The intensification of political rivalries between the Ottoman Empire and neighboring states in Europe and the Middle East
D. The decline of the importance of the Janissaries in the Ottoman army

C. The intensification of political rivalries between the Ottoman Empire and neighboring states in Europe and the Middle East.

Explanation: The ottoman empire was a famous empire emanating from Turkish trybes which was referred to as minor Asia during the 15th to 16thcenturies, the empire grew and expanded into countries like Macedonia, Egypt,Seria, Greece etc. The empire lasted for up to 600years (1300-1922) and ended up in the year 1922. The ottoman empire is also famous for the production of the medical tools which are presently in use like the forceps,scalpels etc.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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