HELP NEEDED In emotionally charged sermons, all the more powerful because they
were delivered extemporaneously, preachers like Jonathan Edwards
evoked vivid, terrifying images of the utter corruption of human nature
and the terrors awaiting the unrepentant in hell. Hence Edwards's
famous description of the sinner as a loathsome spider suspended by a
slender thread over a pit of seething brimstone in his best known
sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Christine Leigh Heyrman Department of History, University of Delaware
National Humanities Center
These type of sermons lead to what movement in the Colonies?

A. Sectionalism Conflicts

B. The 1st Great Awakening

C. The Reform Movement

D. The Era of Good Feeling

the effect of the ming leaders banning ships with more than two masts was that there was no further construction of ships masts, because there was a surplus. ming emperors disallowed foreign exploration

the dissolution of the soviet union[a] occurred on december 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the republics of the soviet union. it was a result of the declaration number 142-н of the supreme soviet of the soviet union.[1] the declaration acknowledged the independence of the former soviet republics and created the commonwealth of independent states (cis), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. on the previous day, december 25, soviet president mikhail gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the soviet union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to russian president boris yeltsin. that evening at 7: 32 p.m., the soviet flag was lowered from the kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary russian flag.[2]

previously, from august to december, all the individual republics, including russia itself, had either seceded from the union or at the very least denounced the treaty on the creation of the ussr. the week before formal dissolution, 11 republics signed the alma-ata protocol formally establishing the cis and declaring that the ussr had ceased to exist.[3][4] both the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the ussr also marked the end of the cold war.

several of the former soviet republics have retained close links with the russian federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the commonwealth of independent states, eurasian economic community, the union state, the eurasian customs union, and the eurasian economic union to enhance economic and security cooperation. on the other hand, the baltic states have joined nato and th