Which of these contributed to the ratification of the eighteenth amendment?

The answer is the growing political influence of women. The Eighteenth Amendment was the result of decades of effort by the temperance movement in the United States and at the time was generally considered a progressive amendment. There are claims that prohibiting the sale of alcohol would eliminate poverty and social issues like violence and immoral behaviour. And also they believe that families would be happier it inspire new forms of sociability between men and women. 

they made rome the dominant power in the mediterranean.