A. city blocks laid out in a grid pattern.
C. a standardized system of weights and measures
The houses were built with stones and bricks, and some of the houses were multi-level, so B is not a feature of the ancient Indus cities.
Imperialism, nationalistic pride and mutual alliances all played a part in building tensions that would erupt into war. World War I, which lasted from 1914 until 1918, introduced the world to the horrors of trench warfare and lethal new technologies such as poison gas and tanks.
The key waterways in the south during the civil war were: Mississippi,Ohio and Tennessee rivers
Both side aware that controlling these rivers would cut down oppositions food and weaponry supplies along with limiting the opposition's ability to mobilize. The union army managed to leverage on this situation better than the Confederates, leading to the union's victory during the civil war.
The balance between corruption and positive accomplishment by the Reconstruction-era state governments in the South is shown below:
For the positive side: there were public education system and work programs. While 20 black people served in the US HOR between 1869 and 1901.
For the corruption side: there were race segregation in school, and Freedmen’s Bureau took back the lands from the blacks and gave it to the whites. No black man was elected governor in the Southern states between 1869 and 1901.