The correct answer is <span>c. transported groundwater from a distance
It wasn't the first known use of wells as wells older than them were found in places like Cyprus and Egypt and Austria who were as old as 6000-8000 years before common era. It also wasn't a postindustrial system as it was used in ancient china in the expansion of trading during the silk road trading era. It only leaves C as the correct answer.</span>
<span>The
economist Julian Simon bet in 1980 that the prices of five free traded
commodities would decline in ten years. In 1990 Simon won this bet against
the neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich.</span>