Why did italian merchants join the efforts of portuguese mariners in searching for an atlantic route to india in the fifteenth century?
c. waning french power in the mediterranean opened the way for them.
d. italians were eager to obtain an alternative source of slaves outside the middle east.
b. the weakening of the ottoman empire made it possible for them to ship through the strait of gibraltar and into the atlantic.
a. the rising power of the ottoman empire restricted their overland access to asian trade.

answer:

won re-nomination with no opposition he also had the support of his party

explanation:

it saw incumbent president andrew jackson, candidate of the democratic party, defeat henry clay, candidate of the national republican party. jackson won re-nomination with no opposition, and the 1832 democratic national convention replaced vice president john c. calhoun with martin van buren.

the safahids used force when persuasion to convert from being a sunni muslim to embrace shi'ism was not effective. they also persecute shi'ites who have different views from their imposed teachings.