The right answer is poverty. After visiting and working in prisons, asylums and almshouses, among others, Dorothea Dix witnessed that people with mental illnesses that were confined in those places, and treated badly, were also very poor. In fact, in 1854 she even presented before Congress a Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane, which proposed the provision of federal land and funds for the creation of new mental institutions.
The sec's mission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation.
Hopefully, this will provide you enough to figure out your answer :)
"Its<span> location limited its contact with other advanced cultures" would be the best option from the list, since a system of boundaries made it inadvantageous for people to both come and go from the territory. </span>
Your answer would be: They wanted to control oil supplies and trade routes in the region.