"rewards and favoritism from the president" usually prompted the appointment of territorial governors early in history, then it shifted more towards character and merit.
14 would be overproduction
It was Homo erectus.
This species is extinct. It is believed to be the first fossil about 1.9 million years ago. Many believe it looks like an ape. Homo erectus is the ancestor of morden human beings.
Options A, and D are the right answers, that he established Duma, and freed the slaves.
In his October manifesto of 1905, Tsar Nicholas II ( the emperor of Russia who ruled between 1894 and 1917), established the Duma (a representative assembly). And in 1861, he introduced significant agrarian reforms and hence, he declared all the serfs to be freed.
Other options do not come under his reforms as russification was the name of the policy of the Alexander III, and Peter the great the first emperor of Russia who established the constitutional monarchy.