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The sentence from the passage that best supports the conclusion that the author was influenced by Amaterasu is "So when she retreated with her laptop to her room and refused to leave, it created a wave of discontent at the school."
We are referring to the Japanese goddess of the Sun and heaven, Amaterasu. Mythology says that one day, Amaterasu had a fight with her brother. She was very angry and she decided to hide inside or a cave in a mountain, leaving the planet in darkness, creating so much chaos and turbulence. She stayed there for a long time. The problem was that her brother Susanoo had ruined many rice fields and this angered Amaterasu.
So when Lara retreated with her laptop to her room and refused to leave, it created a wave of discontent at the school, in similarity to the referred Amaterasu passage.
Early in the twentieth century rapid economic and technological change increasing competition among powerful states.
Germany was the aggressor nation. The event described was the <u>siege of Leningrad</u>, part of Germany's World War II aggression against the Soviet Union. The siege lasted from September 1941 to January 1944, a total of 872 days. More than 1,000,000 Soviet civilians died during the siege. (German forces had finally weakened by then.)
The Huns We're extremely dangerous and had seemed to gain a following so fear was a good way to keep people away