First of all to answer your question we need to know what Clustered rural settlement is. it is when houses and farms of families are located close to each other and border the settlement. most common Clustered rural settlements were situated in New England
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It was the idea of wanting to have the individual states be more powerful than the federal government that guided the development of the articles of confederation, which is why they later proved to be inadequate and were replaced with the Constitution.
Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis wanted to avoid a war between the North and the South.
The answer is C. Alexander the Great, a famous ruler and conqueror whose expanded his empire by conquering lands like the Persian Empire, Egypt, and Mesopotamia.