How was the roman empire system of government similar to many of today's western european governments

The Roman Empire was ruled by an Emperor. BUT, we also saw the first glimpses of a representative republic, in which we vote on candidates to represent us in government. This is what the US has today. You may hear people infer that we are a democracy, or a democratic republic. But this is not true because in a democracy, it is majority wins; much like ancient greece. In our society we are a republic, which comes from democracy. The romans beleived it to be fair so they adopted this form of government from the Greeks (obviously changed a couple things) and they copied many other things from the greeks.

the catholic church withhold people's access to the bible during the middle ages.

people could go to church and listen to the teachings, but it was absolutely forbidden to own and/or read the books of both the old and new testaments. it was also prohibited to translate the books (which where originally in biblical hebrew) to any other language.

this was done so the church could remain in control of what their teachings were and to enhance their importance and power, while also being able to judge people's actions through information that was unavailable for the general public.

the correct answer is b, "fertility rates are increasing, so populations will grow more quickly in the future."