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They help to convey the policy views of individuals and groups to public officials.
Merchants and traders who travel along these routes must stop at oases to replenish food and water supplies and this means that whoever controls an oasis also controls the trade along the route—making oases desirable to political, economic, and military leaders.
The answer is b
The world should support the protesters
It created an orderly plain to settle a new area of the u.s, the territory grew in population and got rights for self government as well.