The correct answer is <em>"B. Grains were among the most important traded goods in the empire."</em>
Grain was an essential food source for all of the citizens of the Roman Empire. In the year 22 BC, the empire experienced a shortage of food supplies which alarmed the population. In order to rapidly end the crisis, the Senate proposed Augustus to oversee the purchase of grains. After initially being reluctant to do so, he finally accepted the role and had success ending with the crisis rapidly. It was not until 8 AD, that he decided to appoint a "praefactus annonae". A government official who would be in charge of overseeing the procurement of food supplies to Rome.
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President Lincoln told a New York newspaper that preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War — not abolishing slavery.
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle contributed profoundly and indefinitely to virtually every field of "human knowledge", from science to logic, from ethics to aesthetics. Aristotle developed the first method of animal classification.
