What are hierarchy and balance?
a. the rules for organizing societies of geographers
b. guidelines for creating a beautiful and functional map
c. recommendations for human - environmental interaction (hei)
d. the motto of the american geographical society

"Guidelines for creating a beautiful" and "functional map

" are "hierarchy" and "balance".

Option: B

Explanation:

Hierarchy is one of the major objectives used while creating an understanding and meaningful map. It acts as a visual separation while creating map which separates the map into several layers of information or places. So due to hierarchy one can differentiate roads, hills, water, etc, Balance on the other hand is included to organize the map and the other elements that is required on the page.

there's multiple reasons why the conquistadors were so successful in colonizing central america, and some of them are:

- they were seen as gods;

at the beginning, the spanish settlers were seen by the natives as gods, and this was mainly due to their white skin, and the way they came with their boats.

- possessed superior weaponry;

the spanish had gunpowder and guns, as well as cannons, while the natives did not had any fire weapons.

- made cleaver alliances;

they used the situation of tribes hating each other, so they made alliances with some of them which served them very well.

- brought diseases;

the native people were not immune to certain diseases the europeans brought with them, so they were dying from seeming harmless things for european standards.

i think it's severe storms but i might be wrong