reasons that eastern luxuries were expensive because it cost a lot of money to produce them and it was used to dignify status. Luxury goods are said to have high income elasticity of demand: as people become wealthier
They were expensive because they were rare in the west. They were rare, because the ways to bring them were a very long, dangerous and otherwise expensive trade routes, either through central Asia or through the Indian and Arabic peninsula coast, and later (after Vasco da Gama) around Africa.
Answer: The U.S. and Texas Constitutions have some similarities: Both include the principles of representative democratic government, in which authority comes from the people.
