It could be argued that history is the interaction between "people," civilizations" and "ideas," since in order for history to "move forward," there needs to be all of these things.
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All except the declaring war
A. - yes, you need to feed the empire!
B. - yes, you need to defend the empire!
C. - yes, you need to govern the empire!
D. - no, this would actually be detrimental to the empire, revolts would be rather bad than good for it.