The correct alternative is <em>"Identification of cities, states and countries".</em>
A political map must have states and countries marked on it, also its capitals. But on the other hand, there's no need for the presence of topography and boundaries, because it would include the political boundaries, not the natural ones.
Also, labels for continents and oceans is not a characteristic of a political map, nor the key for natural resources.
A system of government in which the state<span> plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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<span>The aim of Portugal in the Indian Ocean
was to ensure the monopoly of the </span>spice
trade<span>. Taking advantage of the rivalries that pitted
Hindus against Muslims, the Portuguese established several forts and trading
posts between 1500 and 1510. In </span>East
Africa<span>, small </span>Islamic<span> <span>states along
the coast of </span></span>Mozambique<span>, </span>Kilwa<span>, </span>Brava<span>, </span>Sofala<span> <span>and </span></span>Mombasa<span> <span>were
destroyed, or became either subjects or allies of Portugal.<span> </span></span></span>
At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman’s rights
convention–the first ever held in the United States–convenes with almost
200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World
Anti-Slavery Convention in London. As women, Mott and Stanton were
barred from the convention floor, and the common indignation that this
aroused in both of them was the impetus for their founding of the
women’s rights movement in the United States
