Linen, spices and silk came to Rome from East Asia. The Romans were very dependent on imports to sustain the empire. Maintenance of trade routes was paramount for the Romans.
The correct answer is C) Muryas.
The Mauryas rulers followed endogamy.
The term endogamy that people get married in the same family line. For the Mauryas, marriage outside the family line was forbidden.
In 332 BC, the Maurya Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya. He defeated the troops of the Nanda Dynasty, conquering territories in the west and central India, making it one of the largest empires of that time. It reached the northern parts of India, the border with the Himalayas, to modern-day Afghanistan and Iran.
Crete is approximately 500 miles from Cyprus.
When Alexius I Komnenoi implored the pope (Urban II) for help, he meant it to reconquer the lost Byzantine lands (and therefore return in to their de facto ruler, a.k.a., the Byzantines). Urban however, decided to merely use that as a façade in order to then invade the Muslims, and retake the holy land.
He also saw the wanted to unite Christianity as a whole (All the sects at the time, Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Paulicianism, Iconoclasts, etc. into a single conglomerate, fighting a common enemy.)
