I believe the college students were.
When writing an essay like this, I would devote one paragraph to talking about how supply and demand dictate prices, and another paragraph to how international trade fuels economic growth.
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.
A kamikaze was a Japanese pilot who was trained in WW2 to make a suicidal crash attack, etc, on anything, but they mostly targeted ships. (Battleships, Cargo, etc)