How did both the ottomans and the safavids come to rule such large empires?
a. they benefited from the impact of the black death in europe.
b. they formed economic and political alliances with crusaders.
c. they reached a peace settlement with the byzantines.
d. they used gunpoweder and other military advances.

Why would southern delegates to the constitutional convention have opposed the three-fifths compromise? a) they feared that the president would eventually become "king" in the united states. b) they believed it would be insufficient in protecting the united states from invasion. c) they opposed the creation of a congress that would give states an equal number of senators. d) they wanted their full population of slaves to be counted for purposed of congressional representation.