The only answer I found was: The ancient Chinese kings maintained control of their dynasties throguh military means.
You probably go to connections accademy. I do too.
This question is in the Journey Across Time text book on page 231. The answer is on pages 225 - 231.
Besides the two answers above me, I managed to find a reasonable answer:
"Rulers became powerful because they controlled land and had strong armies."
This is all I could find, hope this benefits others who wonder what the answer is!
Answer:
The Mexican Cession (Spanish: Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War
The government wasn't able to control what the states did, because they had too much autonomy. So...the answer would be A!
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The Soviet Union by 1948 had installed communist-leaning governments in Eastern European countries that the USSR had liberated from Nazi control during the war. The Americans and British feared the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide.