The answer would be a. Andalusia
The Middle East is considered a region because it shares a common culture. The three items that most accurately identify the shared characteristics of that culture is letters A, C, and C.
Many people speak Arabic.
The Ottoman Empire controlled much of the region.
Most people are Muslim.
<span>The Ottoman empire was at its most powerful and influential around the time of the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent and just after so this, so it would be between 1565 and 1570.
After this from around 1571 it began a slow decline.
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The northern states began working to end slavery, but the southern states needed slaves because they thought their economy would suffer without them.