Because of the weakness of non-states (ones that werent official, just groups of people who called themselves states), and European powers had strong econimies and a well organized government. Hope this was useful :P
I believe it was C. I could be wrong though.
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President Nixon's attempts to end stagflation failed because he tried to reduce the amount of money in circulation, he allowed inflation rates to increase, prices went high, and he tried to cut expenditure but Congress intervened and did not allow this to happen. People did not like the idea to pay more taxes neither that prices were high. Unemployment rates increased in this period and the US economy jeopardized. Another thing Nixon decided to do was to devaluate the dollar, facing the Oil Embargo imposed on the United States by the Arab countries.
Forty-five of the 102 Mayflower passengers died in the winter of 1620–21, and the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly during their first winter in the New World from lack of shelter, scurvy, and general conditions on board ship. They were buried on Cole's Hill.
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