Why were the regions along the mississippi and colorado rivers popular places for settlements?

The rocky mountain system stretching from canada to new mexico is a string of mountains running along the wester united states. what factors would mostly cause this arrangement of mountains? intense pressure undemeath a tectonie plate that could not breakthrough the rock subduction of a tectonic plate, which pushed up a neighboring plate into mountains two plates located at a diverging boundary with a third plate rising between them two plates that melted into molten rock, which later cooled into the shape of mountains

The earth's internal process which drives seafloor spreading is

Ineed quickly! which of the following would not be considered an example of the transition of europe into the formation of larger nation-states? a. the hundred years' war b. the unification of italy c. the marriage of isabella and fernando d. the height of feudalism