Why did the Japanese cut terraces into the sides of mountains?

Why did the hawaiian people want a new constitution?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

Which word best describes early america foreign policy ?