Natural resources tend to heavily correlated with the history technological development and conflicts in the community.
Explanation:
Natural resources is necessary for a people to develop their infrastructures and generate wealth. The more wealth a community able to accumulate, the more likely that community will invest in the development of science /technology that might help them in the future.
But, it's also provide one downside. Existence of natural reserouces tend to attract the attention of other communities who wanted to take ownerships over that resources. As a result, it has the likelihood of causing conflict throughout the communities' history.
I believe the answer to your question is B. If the United States was to be partitioned in the same way India was, the partition would be based on religious groupings. Hope this helped!
