Since gaining their independence and becoming self-determined, huge issues arose in things like different ethnic backgrounds or different religious practices or a rise in wealthy and corrupt politicians or totalitarian military governments or similar. These factors all combined together to prevent democratization of the country.
The word most commonly used to <span>describe crowded, poorly constructed or poorly maintained urban apartment buildings would be "slums," since people are often forced to live in such conditions because they lack the means to move elsewhere. </span>
Southeast Asia is the region with Thailand and Indonesia.
Southwest Asia is not a commonly used term, but this would be the Arabian Peninsula and regions around it.
The body of water between them (and south of South Asia= India and north of India) is Indian Ocean, option 3.
The articles gave the government no separation of powers. The government was too weak, the Articles left much of the power to the states (if I remember correctly, states basically went by their own state constitution). Congress didn't have the power to tax. To change the Articles, it had to be decided unanimously by all states. Also, 9 out of the 13 states had to approve any major law before it was passed and Congress couldn't regulate commerce. There was no president to lead, no established court system, and every state had only one vote in congress.
Basically, the articles created no separate executive department to carry out and enforce the acts of Congress and no national court system to interpret the meaning of laws.