During the Ming dynasty, the main reason why China enjoyed a favorable balance of trade with Europe was because "(3) Chinese silk continued to be in high demand <span>in Europe."</span>
The answer is B. Portugal;spain
After reclaiming much the iberian peninsula, Portugal and spain led the way in expanding further contact from within the early zons of Afro-Eurasia
Between the two, spain's territory is larger compared to the portuguese. Spain's influence managed to reach northern part of Africa , Europe while the portuguese mainly focus on the southern part of Asia
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The answer to the question is earthquakes
Speculative investing weakened the stability of the stock market because people were "over-investing" in companies--meaning that that companies were becoming highly over-valued, which led to an economic "bubble" that eventually popped in the Crash of 1929.
They established Rome as the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean, and Rome's move to punish Macedonia for intervening on Carthage's side, after the Second punic War, enmeshed it in the Eastern Mediterranean.