Long-distance trade played a major role in the cultural, religious, and artistic exchanges that took place between the major centers of civilization in Europe and Asia during antiquity. ... Cities along these trade routes grew rich providing services to merchants and acting as international marketplaces.
Long-distance trade played a major role in the cultural, religious, and artistic exchanges that took place between the major centers of civilization in Europe and Asia during antiquity. Some of these trade routes had been in use for centuries, but by the beginning of the first century A. The trade routes served principally to transfer raw materials, foodstuffs, and luxury goods from areas with surpluses to others where they were in short supply.
The answer would be b. Spatial analysis. It does include the formal techniques that would study the entities through the geometric, topological and geographic properties. It does then study the characteristics of a region.Hope this answer would be of help.
