Merchants and traders who travel along these routes must stop at oases to replenish food and water supplies and this means that whoever controls an oasis also controls the trade along the route—making oases desirable to political, economic, and military leaders.
Predestination, total depravity, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints
B: Empire
A and D really just want to be left alone to govern their own, relatively small territory, and a theocracy is just a form of government based on belief systems.
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The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac (This was the ship's name when it was a US Navy ship. The CSA renamed it the Virginia) was the most famous naval encounter of the American Civil War. It is important because it showed that the era of wooden ships was coming to an end.
In a modern world, many countries with kings or queens have evolved into consititutional democracies. in these countries, monarchs are mostly FIGUREHEADS
