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The group that was part of the rising middle class of the Sung period was Shopkeepers.
The gentry and the peasants were the two big divisions of the social classes during the Song period in ancient China.
The Emperor of China was at the very top of the pyramid. He was the most powerful man in the empire and the absolute ruler of the lands.
In the second place were the families who owned big portions of land or better known as the gentry. Then, the peasants. They were the ones that farmed the agriculture fields and worked for the landowners.
The merchants were at the bottom of the pyramid. They were able to earn some good money in trade transactions but an old belief system of the time said that the merchants took advantage of other people's work and made a profit selling the products.
However, these merchants or shopkeepers flourished during the Song period.
Answer:
- decreases, decreases
Explanation:
Initially travel supply and demand have their equilibrium at the intersection between the supply curve (green) and the demand curve (red) where price is P1 and quantity is Q2. When demand decreases, the quantity demanded decreases to Q1. By the law of supply and demand, when demand decreases the price tends to fall. This is what happens on this chart, where decreasing demand leads to decreasing price, now the new price is P2. Thus, the new equilibrium is the result of decreasing demand quantity and price and is established by crossing the supply curve (green) and the new demand curve (purple) at points P2 and Q1.
Since the early 1900's, the industrial use of water has INCREASED DRAMATICALLY.
