What patriot gathering took place in Philadelphia after Britain issued the Intolerable Acts?
a) Continental Congress
b) Albany Plan of Union
c) Committees of Correspondence
d) Boston Massacre

answer; taking up arms to defend the nation;

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire