B. The government was a true democracy representing all the members of society
The answer is "A. They acted as a barrier to further settlements to the west."
He new Emperor Thedosius needed gold and silver to raise another army. The pagan temples had a lot of gold and silver. So he declared the Edict of Thessalonika in 380 A.D. which made Nicaean Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire in both West and East. Jews were exempted.
1664 New York became an English colony