The answer is the third one
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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they never really interacted much with the west except for stuff like the silk road.
Because they were running low on food and they on that ship for days