The example that best represents a monopolistic competition is option D) “A company wins a contract to be the sole provider of phone and cable television service for a city.”
Monopolistic competition always refers to a company offering a service and has no other companies to compete with. In this case, consumers cannot choose among different providers of the same service.
Options A and B are incorrect since in the examples there are companies and chains competing one another in a given area.
Option C is also incorrect since a family is making a decision based on the facilities offered by a hotel which does not mean that there are no other hotels in the vacation area they chose.
What Romans could have obtained through trade from China and India would have been special silk items together with different products of iron which were of high quality; from India. Both nations were also known for the spices which were abound. and could have been traded with the Romans.
They learned how to be farmers. This meant that they could settle lands around rivers and grow their own food and prosper instead of just going from one place to another. This enabled the rise of early river civilizations like Egypt or Mesopotamia or Early Chinese civilizations.
The first reason would be it's geographical condition. The nation of Egypt is secluded by other nations by located in the middle of desert, which make it hard for other nations to form a trading relationship with egypt.
The second reason would be too many bureaucratic corruption that eventually destroyed Egypt's core economy.