2. What ended the long period of prosperity during the Middle Kingdom? A flourishing arts, particularly in jewelry
B crop failures, economic woes, dynastic power struggles, and foreign
invaders
C the building of the giant waterwheels
D political order

I think it’s political order d

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.

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