For Dictatorship, the second answer is incomplete, a dictator may obtain power not only through elections but by a military or institutional coup d'état, a civil war or a military intervention by a foreign power.
In a republic, power is held by those citizens that are able and government is a public matter (res publica in latin) to vote and the power comes from their vote during elections.
A. is a duty of congress. They can say a law is unconstitutional based in their views on the law but they cant declare one unconstitutional. But the President can declare a law unconstitutional and change it.
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The correct answer is A) The development of a written language.
What did the Maya civilization have in common with Western civilization?
Answer: The development of a written language.
Archeologists still admire the way the Maya, an important Mesoamerican civilization, developed written language as a sophisticated way to communicate and leave records of its time on Earth. The Maya were great mathematicians, astronomers, warriors, and had the knowledge to develop a writing system that consisted of 800 glyphs(signs) related in columns that had to be read together to be understood: top to bottom and left to right.
The Maya civilization also developed an accurate calendar to understand time, its cycles, and seasons.
The answer is D. Principalities were small territories that were run by Russian rulers.
This due because they population was very small, and it still hasn't reached by the mongol Empire But they were very close with Russian Territories
