I agree with the person above - the correct answer is indeed B. Phoenecian.
This nation lived around the Mediterranean Sea at the time, so they were famous for their trade in that area. Maya are in Latin America, Chinese and Lapita in Asia, whereas the Mediterranean Sea is located nearer Europe.
The answer is B, to annex new slave states.
In the Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925, a substitute school teacher was accused
by the state of Tennessee of violating the state law that made it illegal to teach
human evolution in any state funded school.
Scopes wasn't even sure whether he had ever actually
taught evolution, but he
said that he did, so that the case
could come to trial and be heard.
