All of the following were characteristics of Confucianism except B. Parallel descent.
The sentence that best explains how the widespread application of steam power affected En glish agriculture in the first half of the nineteenth century is option B. Agricultural produce could be marketed far from the areas where it was grown.
At early 19th century the British invented steam locomotives, which allowed the transportation of large amounts of goods and raw material to be delivered from the farms to the cities. Now fresh goods could be transported to far places.
After WWII, Germany was partitioned into four parts for the four most prominent fighters against the Axis Allies. There was the American Sector, British Sector, French Sector, and Soviet Sector. The Soviets, having liberated Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany during the war, maintained control of Eastern Europe and Germany by simply failing to remove their troops from occupied territory once the war had ended. After having fought a very hefty and destructive war, none of the capitalist Allied forces wanted to invade Eastern Europe to liberate it from Communist control, so the Soviet Union maintained it without major foreign resistance.
I believe the closed answer would be "C".