I'd have to say c but you've got the letters mixed up, so to be safe it's because they often represented animals. The sphinx for example represented Horemakhet, a god who Thutmosis IV 'dreamt' about to become pharaoh.
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I'm pretty certain it's D. ancestral Pueblo structures
In 550 B.C.E. Cyrus the Great, the leader of the Persians, conquered the Medes and united the Iranian people under one ruler for the first time. Cyrus became the first king of the PersianEmpire and went on to establish one of the largest empires in world.
