The correct answer is <span>one clenched fist. The size of a fist would be used as a unit of measure, which was common at that time where people also used elbows and thumbs for size. Foot comes from old times and is still used today, just like stones. These are archaic sizes before the metric system.</span>
I believe it was the Democrats that were strengthened during that time.
It is because of subduction<span>: oceanic crust tends to get colder and denser with age as it spreads off the mid-ocean ridges. It gets so dense, that it sinks in the upper </span><span>mantle </span><span>(subduction). This is like a giant recycling system for oceanic lithosphere! Because continental crust is lighter than oceanic crust, continental crust cannot subduct. We therefore still have some very </span>old continental rocks<span> at the surface of the Earth.</span>
C. Cooperation among Great Powers rather than equality among all nations