religion. that's literally it. religion.
<span> by the time he was born city was prosperous </span>
<span>- Makkah didn't have agriculture- merchants traded instead </span>
<span>- merchants got a lot of money from trading in general but especially from Yemen </span>
<span>- was a religious center </span>
- merchants came to Makkah because it was conventionally located
<span>-was a desert </span>
<span>-was a center of trade/ was a trading city</span>
They looked how good or bad the president handled the Great Recession and based upon, voted to re elect.
Answer:
The city was a land route from Europe to Asia and a waterway between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The strategic geographic location of Byzantium protected it from attacks.
I am not entirely sure about this one. But I believe that the "Emancipation Manifesto" signed by Czar Alexander II gave serfs land, or at least gave them the freedom to do what they wanted, like buying that said land.
No freedom of religion, or elections was yet to be had in Russia.