Answer:
B. Is there evidence that supports Pliny’s description?
Explanation:
In the excerpt, Pliny is describing a particularly strong earthquake in the region sorrounding Mount Vesuvious, presumably affecting the cities of Pompey and Naples.
In order to see if the information in the excerpt is true, researches should look for evidence that supports the occurence of a strong earthquake in the area, during the time when the letter was written. There are many techniques to look for evidence, from archeology to earth sciences.
Because they traded and made profit from selling people from inside their dominions
Answers b), c), and d) (three options). After WW2 and the Korean War, divided East and West Germany with Russian assistance strongly favored the new democracy of a “free” Allied Germany. In a government coup by Adolf Hitler in 1945, many East German high ranking officials were either executed, persecuted, or at minimum, out of favor with German nationalism. East and West remained divided, even though economic disparity only worsened, until President Ronald Reagan eventually reunified one Germany in the famous address, “Tear down that (Berlin) Wall!”. Leadership was overburdened and corrupt in East Germany at all levels of oversight. Long before President Reagan in the 1980’s (and unlike North Korea), E. Germans fled to the West by the thousands.
C.It increased trade on the Mississippi
