<em>The correct answer is A) The US and Western Europe are strong because they have high GDPs.</em>
Explanation:
The United States and Western Europe have among the highest GDPs in the world. GDP stands for gross domestic product, which basically is a measure of the economic activity that took place in a country.
The higher the GDP of a country, the more economic activity took place in the country and hence, generally, such countries are richer and more developed.
We can see other countries on the map, that far a lower GDP and hence, are not that powerful and do not have a strong influence on the world.
Like in the Middle Colonies, the southern colonies had greater religious freedom than in New England, but the Church of England was the majority. The majority of colonists in the Southern region were men.
