What problem made China reluctant to improve relations with the United States?
A. Soviet aggression
B. The U. S.-Soviet arms race
C. The U. S. counterculture
D. The Vietnam War

because it took place after the war of 1812 had come to an end.

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

that was the type of government the spanish colonists were used to.