The answer is information gaps. These are missing
information necessary to complete a job. The United States give out with fears
in the 1990s about a gap between "information haves" and
"information have-nots" by ratification of a new act that endowed the
connection of every insttution and archive to the Internet.
I'm gonna go with A) its location on the Mediterranean Sea provides ports and access to other waterways.
I believe the answer is: Famous people
Peer pressure refers to a direct influence that is initiated by people that are in close proximity with your social group. Even though famous people can influence other people in a certain way, they are tend to be in long proximity than you and cannot be categorized as peer pressure.
I think that the best answer to this question is: Shark fin soup
. This is because making this soup will require the fishing for sharks, and the fishing for sharks has the potential for overfishing and will result in the possible disappearance of this species and possibly even some other related species.