You just found out that the homecoming queen and captain of the football team from your high school are splitting up. you think back to the last time you saw them together and have the feeling that you could have predicted their break up. hindsight bias explains your feeling and indicates a(n) in your thinking.

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place.

d.) continue to rise rapidly