The answers are:
a. biology - comes from the Greek ''bios'' which means ''life'', and ''logia'' which means ''study of''.
b. physics - comes from the Greek ''physike'' which means ''knowledge of nature''.
c. geography - comes from the Greek ''geographia'' which means ''earth description''.
d. algebra - comes from the Arabic ''al-jabr'' which means ''reunion of broken parts''.
e. philosophy - comes from the Greek ''philosphia'' which means ''love of wisdom''.
<em>It's A, Protects people's ideas</em>
Geography played a critical role in the economic development of New York, Boston, and Charleston, since all of these cities were located on the Atlantic Ocean and had protected harbors, that allowed for unprecedented levels of trade with both other states and other nations.
