The importation of salt was most important to the Egyptians. <span />
The United States took military action against the Taliban due to the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 by al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden was determined to have had connections to the movement (however tenuous or extremist they may have been) and the movement itself oftentimes encouraged hostilities against Western states due to their century-long period of interference in Middle Eastern affairs.
The correct answer is : patricians
Democratic dominance of the South originated in the struggle of white Southerners during and after Reconstruction (1865–1877) to reestablish white supremacy and disenfranchise blacks. The U.S. government under the Republican Party had defeated the Confederacy, abolished slavery, and enfranchised blacks.