<span>b. spice
</span><span> The product that was commonly traded along the Silk Road were spices. Spices were produced in countries far away from Europe and they were very expensive, both because the production was limited and because the trip to collect them was dangerous. The Silk Road linked Asia and Europe via land for many centuries before the age of Discoveries. </span>
It would be the development in agricultural knowledge/technology
Development in agriculture enable hunter/gatherer society to shift their behavior. Before this, they had to keep moving from one place to another in order to seek food to live.
After the development in agricultural knowledge/technology, the society now can stay in one exact place for a long period of time and relied on agricultural product as their main source food.
After living in one same place for a long time, the needs to build things to accommodate their living start to arise. They start to built several things and repeat the process every year. In the end, large cities were developed from the initially small hunter/gatherer society.
One of the main reasons why Congress did not initially annex Texas is because it would create an imbalance of free and slave states in Congress.
During the early to mid 19th century, the United States was constantly expanding their territory. This was due in large part to the concept of manifest destiny. As the US was spreading their influence, they ran into the problem of whether or not these new territories and states would have the institution of slavery.
Southern states favored new territories and states having slavery while Northern states did not favor slavery in these new territories. The reason behind the Northern states includeds:
1) Influences from the abolitionist movement.
2) Northerners did not want slave states to have more representatives in Congress than they did.
This caused Texas annexation to be delayed, since Texas would be admitted as a slave state. This would throw off the balance of free and slave states represented in Congress, giving slave states the advantage.
The fundamental unit that you count to gauge how good a city is not the number of people, but the number of connections.
The social inequality in the English class system was stark.Wealthy and middle-class peoplethrived with all of the new opportunities created during the Industrial Revolution.Industrialproduction increased tremendously, bringing wealth and power to Great Britain and this class ofpeople.However, the poor really did not benefit much from the changes. There was noregulation of child labor.They worked long hours and were under paid.The working conditionswere horrible, and because unemployment was so high, the workers did not have a voice in<span>demanding better treatment
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