the importance of the group over that of the individual.
Because the northwest passage represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the Arctic Archipelago of what is now Canada. Europeans searched for 300 years to find a viable SEA TRADE-ROUTE to Asia. If they were to find it, it would have been easier to travel through seas, and land in the past.
The correct answer is A) By centralizing the government and breaking the area into regions and then provinces.
Chandragupta Maurya achieved control over such a large empire by centralizing the government and breaking the area into regions and then provinces.
What he does was take full control of the government by centralizing the main administrative activities of the empire so he could oversee the most important aspects of the government. He divided the territory into provinces to better handle the administration of each one. He also allowed the creation of a group of counselors or ministers that formed a council to support the administration.