Answer: C. it was China's capitol in the sixth century and the largest city in the world at the time.
Explanation: i found out the hard way because i originally thought it was "D" but as i finished and it said the correct answer was "C".
The geography of the Southern Colonies featured fertile soil, hilly coastal plains, forests, long rivers and swamp areas Natural Resources: Fish, forests (timber) and good agricultural land, farming was important.
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect in 1863, announced that all enslaved people held in the states “then in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
On January 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed the proposed amendment with a vote of 119-56, just over the required two-thirds majority. The following day, Lincoln approved a joint resolution of Congress submitting it to the state legislatures for ratification.
The congress, together with the president, decided the legality of slavery.
Because the portugese were loosing their touch with the people of the land in those islands