I belive it is D because it is a scientific reasons and it gives you data to learn off
I believe what this passage foreshadows is that C. Rome will suffer danger and destruction.
You can see in the excerpt that no good things are happening - there is a fire, and something is burning, and people are afraid - so obviously, it doesn't mean that it is going to prosper or be renewed, when something so terrible is happening. One slave cannot destroy an empire, which is why that is incorrect too.
If you don’t know you shouldn’t be answering it
Answer: History is develop predictable over time because more information is added to history everyday. ... “Strauss and Howe (S&H) define a generation as people who were born over the span of roughly twenty years, or the average time it takes for an infant to grow up and become a parent.”
