Explanation:
Smith states, explicitly and repeatedly, that the true measure of a nation's wealth is not the size of its king's treasury or the holdings of an affluent few but rather the wages of “the laboring poor.”
Mafia organizations are more of a threat than terrorist groups because they modify democracies from within by introducing their illicit earnings into the legal economy. Their businesses defeat the competition because, by counting on these illegal parallel markets, they can lower their prices. Mafia assets also finance the banking, construction, and transportation sectors of the economy.
<span>The merchants embraced
Islam, because it gave them a very important point of union with the
clients and partners who had this religion, facilitating trade in Muslim
towns. The monarchs, by belonging to Islam, in the same
way as merchants, took advantage of religion to lay the foundations of
alliances; and also because Islam taught them how they should be, and how to behave. <span>The
educators embraced Islam because the Muslims were in favor of
education, they supported it and that favored the support of schools and
teaching (including the study of Islam).</span></span>
Answer:
because persia was a larger empire and was probably better but Athens and Sparta and some other Greek city-states helped and they had the advantage because they knew the geography of the land and the element of surprise.
