The answer to the first question is: the king of India, he never conquered India. The answer to the second: Phalanxes. The phalanxes were based on the usage of long spears, that would stop the enemy advancing.
Sectionalism is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
Answer: Louis Mallard experienced an internal conflict throughout the story. In the short story, she found herself fighting with her own feelings, between what she should feel/act and what her true feeling are. When Mrs. Mallard is told the news of her husbands death, it seems that she is depressed and grief-stricken
Explanation: The author included it to make the story interesting, a story has to have a conflict to have a solution and for a reader to want to keep reading.
