That would be C. the northeast
This was location of most of the original colonies, and it doesn't make sense for any other region to be more urbanized and industrialized. The US didn't inhabit the entire continent at once, instead, they slowly made their way across. Industrialization takes a long time, and it only makes sense that the longest inhabited part of the country would be the most industrialized at that time.
Democracy is the correct answer
The Mesopotamia were polytheistic when it happened to faith, they believe in various demons and who they pray to be depended on their requirement.
Example used in the text: Marduk primitive male inventor and Adad, the river spirit. The spirits described physical results.
For example: if a person owes wealth and Adad has overwhelmed the man's jurisdiction, the man will not return any tax or pay any attention in that year.
He wanted to secure the place of Macedonia as dominant among the Greek states, to establish peace in the Greek world, and divert Greek energy to support his upcoming invasion of the Persian Empire, without Greek uprisings threatening his home base in his absence.
D it wAs was the lack of congress support