D. nut: ensured good harvests is correct
The way that camels help increase trade across geographic barriers of northern Africa is : Camels helped with transportation.
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then, we still have not developed machine based transportation
vehicles, so we rely on ships and carts. Since the horses are unable to
cross pass the desert, most of the animals that is used on northern
Africa trade were camels.
Less the political and opinionated rhetoric...
<span>A billion plus consumers that are hungry for imported Western products... plus Western consumers hungry for inexpensive exported products from China. </span>
<span>A larger market base simply equates to potentially more capital and larger profits. And the same can be said about importing products from China... a cheaper manufacturing base simply equates to potentially more capital and larger profits.</span>
The printing press
Movable type printing was introduced to Europe by Johann Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. This technological advance made it possible for a reformer like Martin Luther to spread his ideas widely and rapidly. While overall literacy rates were low at that time, it was common for people to gather for reading of the latest Reformation materials. Hundreds of thousands of copies of tracts written by Luther were printed and distributed -- as well as similar spread of ideas by publishing done by other reformers.
They wanted shorter working days (such as 8 hour days for example)
