There were four common stages of growth in the life of an empire. Which of the following indicates the adult phase:
A leader begins to conquer adjacent lands and absorb other smaller civilizations.
Leaders gather together to determine how they should expand.
Artisans are well-provided for and impact their culture.
Outside forces begin to pick off villages and land.

The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century british politics: a. had mainly a civic and social quality. b. prompted two eighteenth-century leaders, joseph mccarthy and hugh mccarran, to demand independence for ireland. c. brought great wealth and power to its main voice, john locke. d. was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being. e. had the same meaning as liberalism in twenty-first-century american politics.

Which of the following descriptions is an example of the curtual diffusion

After ww2, the soviets began setting up what type of governments in countries closest to them