The city of Rome was the most lavish place to live in the empire. The Romans organized the people they conquered into provinces,
much like the districts of Panem, and these districts provided the capital with what it needed. The provinces were under the control of Roman-appointed governors, who had absolute power over all non-Roman citizens. Which statement best summarizes this passage? Roman governors abused citizens so they could live lavish lives. Romans used wealth from conquered people to live lavish lives. Life for people in the provinces was much happier than life in the city. Noncitizens had too much influence over the people of Rome.
Throughout the mid-1880s, the Northern Pacific pushed to reach Puget Sound directly, rather than by means of a roundabout route that followed the Columbia River. Surveys of the Cascade Mountains, carried out intermittently since the 1870s, began anew.
