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Answer: I would advise Augustus to not reduce the program.
Explanation: This would cause and uprising within his city and also compromise his trading with Eqypt and Spain. There could be a compromise whereby the grain could be less reduced, however, to shut it down would be a massive uprising.
At the peak of the Roman Empire's reach, around A.D. 117, the Empire stretched as far north as modern Scotland, stretched down through Europe east into Asia as far as the border between modern day Iraq and Iran, with its southern reaches extending into northern Africa.
Answer:
Monopolies hinder competition because by definition, they are anti-competitive.
Explanation:
A monopoly is a firm that is the sole provider of a good for which there are no close substitutes.
Monopolies charge higher prices than they would in a competitive enviroment, and for this reason, they benefit the monopoly at the expense of the consumers.
Governments can set several policies to reduce monopoly power. One policy is simply to prohibit monopolies from forming, which is the case for most industries in developed nations.
Another policy is to simply take over the monopoly, and make it a public enterprise, so that the extra economic benefits of the monopoly are shared with the people (at least in theory).
Answer:
He was referring to his plan to "pack the courts" with judges he endorsed.
Explanation: