The answer to this question is probably C. Hope this helps!
Reconstruction comprised three major initiatives: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and portrayal of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves. President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction—give out in 1863, two years before the war even ended—plotted out the first of these initiatives, his Ten-Percent Plan.
<span> by the time he was born city was prosperous </span>
<span>- Makkah didn't have agriculture- merchants traded instead </span>
<span>- merchants got a lot of money from trading in general but especially from Yemen </span>
<span>- was a religious center </span>
- merchants came to Makkah because it was conventionally located
<span>-was a desert </span>
<span>-was a center of trade/ was a trading city</span>
