What was the impact of Italy's geography on the development of Rome?
a. It provided little productive land for agriculture.
b. It divided the peninsula into small isolated communities.
c. It made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend.
d. It made the conquering of the Mediterranean a difficult task.
e. It created the same difficult environment as in Greece, thus making political unity difficult.
c
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a. Milan b. Venice c. Genoa d. Florence e. Piedmont
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A. decided to produce westerns, musicals, and other genres that were not subject to government censorship and did not need to promote wartime goals. B. encouraged studios that showed the United States and its allies in a positive light-except for the Soviet Union because of its oppressive communist dictatorship. C. resisted government censorship and guidelines for making movies. D. was an agency of the Office of War Information that encouraged movie studios to produce prowar films and censored any that cast the war effort or the country in a negative light.
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