I am pretty sure that three options from the list represented above are suitable for your question. Just checked the list of activies and come across these ones : discus throw, wrestling and boxing. Therefore A,B,C are the correct ones.
<em>One of the most infamous of these political machines was Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.</em>
<em>A political machine is a political group in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers)</em>
The eastern and western deserts prevented invaders from the east and west. The deserts were a hard climate to travel through. Therefore, nobody could walk across to conquer Egypt. Furthermore, the cataracts in the Nile to the south protected the Egyptians from lands below them. So the answer would be that The Nile protected the Egyptians from invasion.
The Chinese Revolution of 1911. In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.