1. The need for gold and silver made it lucrative to carry out trade with other countries
2. Mercantilism - The economic policy that emphasized the need of every nation to build as much wealth as it can in order to gain power
3. Insurance companies became more formalized as risk mitigation started gaining priority. Laws were changed to deal with insurance issues
4. free trade policies. Governments became involved themselves in trade by grant royal trade monopolies.
The fourth option is the right one. The Swahili city-states grew during the second half of the first millenium thanks to the intense trade activity in the Indian Ocean, <u>India and China had been important trade centers since antiquity and a great trade network had been built over the centuries</u>. Besides the connections between coastal cities of the Indian Ocean, in it's northern part, by the coast of Persia, passed the Silk Road, the trade route that connected Europe to China throughout the Middle Age.
He was responsible for introducing tobacco to the colony. Because of this, it because a huge export crop and the area thrived.
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