State of Maryland lacked the power to tax the bank
The United States of America
Ancient Egypt had pharaohs as their leaders. Similar to kings, pharaohs were picked by whoever was next in the bloodline. Pharaohs were on top of the social structure, followed by nobles and priests, soldiers, scribes, merchants, artisans, farmers and finally slaves. The pharaoh ranked above everyone else and his word was absolute. The pahraoh was the person who looked over everything. Whatever he said, people had to do.
I think the answer is (b)
It happened right after world war one when Germany was left in ruins due to the war and Hitler proposed a new ideology of Naziism which everyone started to like due to the situation Germany was in at the time.