Checking for Understanding Match each term with its definition or description
purgatory
in a language common to an area or
people, not a scholarly language
Dante
a place where a soul must wait until it is
ready to enter heaven
vernacular
using tricks, lies, or dishonesty in order
to gain something
to gain for oneself to obtain
Machiavellian
writer of The Divine Comedy
Intro

answer; /// i do believe that its napolean's conquest of spain;

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.

explanation:

to tell the truth it is a mix of the a and d because after the romans argued among themselves outside forces took control however it is mostly d.