<span>The Crusades resulted in
an influx of goods, wealth and knowledge into Western Europe from the
Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world. This influx was one of
several factors that caused the Renaissance and Europe's shift from
being a technological backwater to the most advanced region in the
world.</span>
The option is D.
The best example of this is colonial
India, where several famines happened under British Rule, being the
first major of it in 1770, in the region of Bengal, where about
a quarter or a third of the population starved to death in a ten-month
period, and East India Company's raising of taxes to farmers
disastrously coincided with this, exporting
the majority of the crops to Europe, and leaving poor most of the population that was employed in agriculture in that moment.
The political influence held by slaveholders in the south
B. The Antarctic Treaty. It has Antarctic in its name and that has something to do with Antarctica.
Hope this helps.
I'm pretty sure it is either C or D.