1st answer is (a) keeping personal files on prominent politicians
2nd answer is (c) Alger Hiss
<span>One major difference was the locations. Meroe was built on the bottom of mountains and thus had a steady amount of rainfall, due to which the soil was fertile. Other cities in Egypt depended on the annual flooding of the Nile River in order to have good soil to plant and grow food needed for survival. This kind of flooding was really important and hence Meroe was important.</span>
The United States historically had far less imperial actions in comparison to their European counterparts. The United States did not have massive colonial empires like Britain or France. The United States acquired some territories outside of the "continental" US however, it did not maintain an imperial presence like any of its European cohorts.