Why were europeans so interested in exploration in the 1400s and 1500s? a) they wanted to spread christianity. b) they believed it was their destiny to spread across the globe. c) they needed land for their growing populations. d) they sought knowledge, power, and riches.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.