Which of the following statements best describes settlement patterns in the middle east? a. people have settled near important religious sites. b. people have settled where they can get political freedom. c. people have settled in areas where the climate is most favorable. d. people have settled near the resources that are most valuable to them.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery