Who controlled much of the spice trade during the early 1400s?
a. italian and muslim merchants
b. spanish and african merchants
c. russian and swedish merchants
d. chinese and indian merchants

The correct answer is D. The Chinese and the Indian Merchants. This was one of the main reasons why Europeans wanted to find alternate routes to India. They wanted to avoid these merchants and go straight to the producers, so they started circling Africa and discovering America by mistake. They did eventually find a way and colonizing India and China including the countries between.

Britain and its empire stood alone against hitler and mussolini. in june 1941, hitler broke the non-aggression agreement with stalin and germany invaded the soviet union. in december, japan attacked the us and britain. the main lines of world war ii had formed.