Answer: His teachings, preserved in the Analects, focused on creating ethical models of family and public interaction and setting educational standards. The Zhou had essentially lost its control, and China was divided up into congeries of contending feudal states warring with one another for power and control.
Based on this passage and what you have learned about the states, the states were unwilling to voluntarily work together in a confederation because each state had its own interests and needs.
Each state was in favor of proceeding their own interests and needs they believed that focusing on their needs would be a much better option in the long run. Unity wasn’t a wide practice during that era too.
Answer:
Central Asia and Europe
Explanation:
Those regions are when the USSR collapsed in 1991, 15 new countries were formed from within its former borders, and the balance of power in Eastern Europe had been destroyed