I need help with English grammar (6th grade)

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Select the correct answer. which sentence uses the word abominable correctly? a. derek treated his motorbike with abominable disregard. b. derek completed his driving course in abominable time. c. derek was abominable at himself for missing the bus. d. derek thought of an abominable plan to the homeless. reset ne

Reat britain justified raising taxes on colonists because of which event? british merchants being denied entry into colony ports colonists picking up arms against british soldiers and merchants american indians receiving more trading from colonists british debt from defending the colonies in the french and indian war