The anwser is C :) good luck
Babylon's power increased, as Assyria declined as an empire. The Babylonians wanted to take control of the Fertile Crescent
This would be matrilineal, where the line of the mother was the relevant line, and not of the father: in order to be a king, one needed to have the royal mother and the father was irrelevant. The dynasty would be traced by the female line in this case (even if the kings were the rulers).
Biological determinism is a canard that has repeatedly been explained away by evolutionary informed scientists since time immemorial. Humans are an inextricable mix of their genes and their environments. As a matter of fact, genes get turned on or off as a function of environmental inputs. Evolutionary-based cognitive computational systems take information from the environment to get activated. Natural selection itself, the foundational mechanism of evolution, is shaped by the selective forces within a specific environment. Hence, there is no such thing as biological determinism.