The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
The correct answer would be b
C. 1.5 trillion was spent on defense
It was mainly the "C. Imperial nations, such as the United Kingdom and France," that benefited most from 19th-century imperialism, since these were the nations that were extracting the resources from the colonies.
The statement is - Delta.
The Nile River creates a large delta before its entry into the Mediterranean Sea, on the northern part of the territory of Egypt. Because the river is becoming very slow in this part, large amount of debris that it carries with it are deposited on its sides, thus limiting the space for the water to pass through. The waters of the Nile started to branch out in order to continue their flow, and this gradually led to a triangular shaped area of deposits with multiple branches of the river between them, known as delta.