Answer: d. Mongols
Explanation:
Under Genghis Khan and his descendants, the Mongols developed the largest land empire that the world has ever seen with their dominions stretching from the pacific coast of Asia to Eastern Europe.
In their lands, they reestablished the Silk Road and offered such protection on it that trade flourished in the empire and even continued after the empire shrank. They also developed a tribute system to ensure the empire remained rich.
The Hyksos were a Semitic people who gained a foothold in Egypt c. 1782 BCE at the city of Avaris in Lower Egypt, thus initiating the era known in Egyptian history as the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1782 - c. 1570 BCE).
Explanation:
The jury awarded Apple $533.3 million for Samsung's violation of so-called design patents and $5.3 million for the violation of so-called utility patents.
A jury found that several Samsung smartphones did infringe those patents. All told, Apple was awarded $399 million in damages for Samsung's design patent infringement, the entire profit Samsung made from its sales of the infringing smartphones.
On December 6, 2016, the United States Supreme Court decided Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc., No. 15-777, holding that in the case of a multicomponent product, the “article of manufacture” that is the basis for an award of damages under Section 289 of the Patent Act
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