The Arabian Peninsula became important to traders because . Select one:

it had a climate suited to traders’ sedentary lifestyles

it served as a crossroads among Asia, Africa, and Europe

it had vast mountains and plateaus that helped with trade movement

it served as a respite from the conflicts between the major empires

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Was the battle of iwo jima over after us troops raised the flag on mt. suribachi?

What did nativists think about chinatowns in the late 1800s?