B, because she wanted his trust
That the Roman Empire was a gargantuan power and reached to almost all of the known world at the time of greatest land holdings
This is called word analysis.
When you are trying to figure out what a particular word means, you are obviously going to analyze it. Maybe you know what its root means, or you can deduce the meaning based on its prefixes and suffixes. You will probably take into consideration the context and neighboring words in the sentence as well in order to analyze it.
1.Turtles caught on land or at sea were a favourite dish of the pirates
2.Turtles weighing more than 100 pounds could be kept alive for weeks on deck.
3. The turtle pursued by pirates trundled around the deck