I don't understand your question. What role did they play in what exactly? I could be able to help you if I knew what you were referring to.
The answer here is clothes of pure silk, spices that are solely grown in Asia, perfume that is extracted from flowers that are solely grown in Asia, and jewels that were mined from the oriental mountains
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The correct answer is A) Both embraced Western ideas and worked to bring Russia fully into European cultural and political life.
The statement that best describes the similarities in reforms between Catherine the Great and Peter the Great is "Both embraced Western ideas and worked to bring Russia fully into European cultural and political life."
These rulers of Russia were interested in maintaining close ties and relationships with western European nations. They received the influence of other European rulers and customs from other parts of the continent.
Both Peter and Catherine considered that a good education was a good investment and although were dictators -Emperors in that time- they ruled to expand Russia's territory. However, both failed in improving the living condition of their subjects that remained poor.
In a letter to the editor of a newspaper since you should sound nice and polite