What feature of japan's geography allowed it to develop its own distinct culture?
a. the high mountains that dominate central japan
b. its distance from the mainland of korea and china
c. the many volcanoes that surrounded the islands
d. the fact that japan is a peninsula

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.