It was commercially important. It allowed for the shipping of commercial goods and saved time + money.
Answer:it allowed each state to create its own foreign policy
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Human societies from the Paleolithic to the early Neolithic farming tribes lived without states and organized governments. For most of the Lower Paleolithic, human societies were possibly more hierarchical than their Middle and Upper Paleolithic descendants, and probably were not grouped.
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