What led to the collapse of the Soviet Union

Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Economic downfall, political upheaval

Explanation:

Policy reform by Gorbachev who was the then Secretary General of the Communist party in 1985 saw a promotion of a policy called of Openness(Glasnost) and restructuring (perestroika); these policy created room for a critism and democratic uprising- there was lost of government control of the media in the process.

The war with Afghanistan which met a stalement with opposition from the US supporting the Afghans also brought about a weakening of their army.

In terms of Economic the economic system dwindled interms of fall of oil price from $120 to about $20; the USSR was reckoned as a major exporter of oil and gas then. This did not bring about sudden collapse but contributed. The well funding of the military in an unrational fashion of a dwindling economic promulgated by not well apportioning resources to empower would be entrepreneurs and small scale business also climatised to the fall of USSR.

explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india