There are many similarities and differences between the economies of chile and Venezuela, but perhaps the most significant would be that the former focussed mostly on agricultural exports.
Answer: The answer is the 1st option.
Explanation: The first sentence in the passage above talks about predicting the possibility of Mongolian domination and then the rest of that paragraph backs this prediction by outlining how weak or fragmented much of the world was. So the author was suggesting that the world seemed to be ripe for conquest.
The second paragraph makes reference to ignoring the latent forces of the Arabian Desert" because Arabia would have seemed what it had been for times immemorial, the refuge of small and bickering nomadic tribes. This reinforces the idea that no one would have predicted a new, powerful empire to emerge from Arabia at that time.
The chief treasurer was responsible for the government's wealth and collecting taxes. In ancient Egypt, however, they paid in goods, not in money, such as cloth, grain, animals, and silver.
Sunken Phoenician ships have been discovered from the deep Mediterranean waters near Ashkelon, in modern-day Israel, to the Spanish shoreline.
