Answer:I believe it's the second choice
Britain could rule its large territory with direct, immediate communication.
Explanation:
Authoritarian states rose in Eastern Europe because they were small new countries without capitol t develop industry. Haves and Have-nots and most did not have experience with democracy.
The empire was spit because it was believed that this empire had become to large and complex for one ruler to handle.
The Zollverein was an economic union of 30 states. The correct option among all the options given in the question is option "b". Zollverein is actually a coalition of German states whose main agenda was to manage the tariffs and all the economic policies within the German territories. Later on it expanded to other European countries as well.
The following scenario which would most likely cause the country's literacy rate to decrease would be if A) Libya is torn by civil war. This would cause the literacy rate to decline, because if there is civil war, schools are shut down and it is unsafe for children to go to school, so their education is halted. This ties into the literacy if schoolchildren have their daily reading and writing learning halted.