The space between Babylon and Jerusalem is a very inhospitable one. Everything is covered with desert, the Syrian Desert to be more specific. It is a very dry, very hot area, with very little water only on few spots. There are sand storms that are very dangerous. This makes this area very dangerous for traveling, so the people mostly avoided traveling through it in order to not end up lost or dead in it. The travelling between these two cities was very limited, and it was mostly done either by circling around this desert, or through very well organized expeditions.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
I'm going to go with Russification because in the quote above it says "one language, one church, and one ruler." I feel as if this quote is calling for assimilation. When the Russian empire was big, in order to maintain their identity the Russians forced the countries that were under their rule to learn the language and culture and to give up the culture and language of the country that the people lived in (the countries that fell under the Soviet Union). All that to say, countries that fell under the Soviet Union had to loose their identity and take up the Russian identity.
Hopefully this helped and good luck.
B: <span>The Nationalists were reluctant to fight is the correct answer</span>
