It was showed as a surplus because it was a surplus when it came to the budget. The problem behind it that for the first time in a while, the United States budget worked with a surplus after the year ended even though it was not the idea of a surplus that the people believed.
The surplus disappeared because it never really existed. It was a surplus but it didn't mean that the country was not in debt. The country had a huge amount of debt to other countries or to companies or to any other institution such as a bank. The surplus was eaten up by the debt accumulated over the years. There was a surplus, but the debt was not reduced.
The map below shows us the migratory patterns of the Indo-Europeans, and with their migrations, the spread of the their language as well. As the Indo-Europeans started to migrate from their homeland in the lowlands between the Black and Caspian seas, they were spreading their culture with them. This led to their language seemingly distant regions that do not seem connected. As they were moving in different areas, Europe, India, Iran, Central Asia, their language started to change, so lot of new dialects emerged, and later those dialects gave birth to new languages, though all of those languages kept their basis and remained part of the same linguistic family.
I believe the answer is: B.The Byzantine emperor was considered to be the highest political and religious figure. In the Western Empire, the highest political and religious figures were two different people.
Even though it's true that the priests had a really huge influence in western politic, At that time period the highest political figures and religious figures still divided between the emperor and the High Priest. The priest's involvement in political stance limited only to being a direct advisory to the Emperor.