Answer: The answer is the 1st option.
Explanation: The first sentence in the passage above talks about predicting the possibility of Mongolian domination and then the rest of that paragraph backs this prediction by outlining how weak or fragmented much of the world was. So the author was suggesting that the world seemed to be ripe for conquest.
The second paragraph makes reference to ignoring the latent forces of the Arabian Desert" because Arabia would have seemed what it had been for times immemorial, the refuge of small and bickering nomadic tribes. This reinforces the idea that no one would have predicted a new, powerful empire to emerge from Arabia at that time.
Answer:
B No state may contradict federal law.
Explanation:
The suprememacy clause lays out how Federal law is always superior to state laws, if a state creates a law that contradicts federal laws it could go to the Supreme Court for a ruling, which in turn could nullify the law if it is found to violate the suprememacy clause.
Kepler did multiple things, but his most famous work is demonstrating that the planets move in an elliptical (kind of like an oval) orbit around the sun instead of a circular orbit.
The people give the power to the Constitution. Hope this helps!
I am doing it for points because it just so happened you asked me not to. :)