Answer: D. construction and protection of roads that ensured safe and easy travel
Explanation:
Under Genghis Khan and his descendants, the Mongols conquered much of Asia and some of Eastern Europe such that they created the largest land empire ever seen.
Even though these Mongols could be brutal in conquest, they increased trade in the region by repairing the networks of roads that connected their conquered areas as well as constructing more. The protection they afforded these roads was renowned thus making travel easy.
Rights that they thought they had but not really
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The ideas of John Locke & the Magna Carta evidenced in the concept and practice of town hall meetings in that Locke considered that people had natural rights and the freedom to ask and demand their representatives and political officials the proper explanations to know how they were ruling the country or ask them to help resolve citizen's issues. One way to that was precisely having appointments or meetings with these representatives or officials, where citizens could feel free to ask any question or expose their concerns.
In the case of the Magna Carta of June 1215 signed by King John, the noble barons of England demanded changes to the oppression exerted by the monarchy and offered the king the Magna Carta as a way to establish a way to grant liberties and avoid a rebellion.
The northern lawmakers needed the state to join the union instead of the confederacy, because if they joined the confederacy, the Union would be weaker. They got the Missouri on their side by allowing it to hold slaves (but that could easily be overturned, so getting the state was more of a priority than having slavery or not)
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