Germany had a large, strong, well trained, and well equipped army, but that still was not enough so that they can be all over Europe and control everything themselves. In order to be able to keep things under control and their goals to be achieved, the Germans depended a lot on local collaborators. Some of those collaborators were from the occupied countries, while some were smaller countries that had allied with the Germans. Some of the countries that were helping the Germans in their goals were the Hungarians, Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Italians, Albanians, Croatians. All of them were managing to keep control with their military forces on local level, which was easing things up a lot for the Germans to make further expansion and get involved into some battles.
The printing of books from carved wooden blocks was developed during the Ming dynasty of China. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the second option or option "b". I hope that this is the answer you were looking for and it has come to your help.
Under the Articles of Confederation, states caused economic chaos by making independent trade agreements with foreign countries, so the Constitution gave the federal government the power to regulate trade and foreign policy.