What did Mary I do when she became the Queen of England? She restored her nation’s ties to the Catholic Church. She made Anglicanism the official religion of England. She allowed all heretics to travel and settle in England. She refused to recognize the Council of Trent agreements.

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.

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

cutting down of the rainforest