The correct answer here is C.
The Cold War was waged on many fronts. They may not have been literal fronts in classic sense but fronts nonetheless. There were proxy wars but also cultural and economic wars as well. The reduction of oil prices by Saudi Arabia were significant because they hurt the struggling economy of the Soviet Union.
Fairly primitive compared to what he and the others had brought as they had brought guns and the Taínos brought clubs and bows and arrows
Oddly enough, it wasn't Rome. Nor was it Antioch or Cordoba (both of those cities aren't even in Italy).
When the Byzantine empire expanded its borders under Justinian, it reclaimed much of what used to be part of the Roman Empire throughout the Mediterranean. But when they took Italy, they made Ravenna a provincial capital - not Rome. Later, it would eventually become the capital of a Byzantine Exarchate.