...Charged very high prices to move farm products to market The farmers felt the railroads had monopoly power over them. The farmers essentially had no choice but to send their crops to market on trains. There was not much, if any, competition on most short-line tracks that went through farm areas. Therefore, most farmers had to simply accept whatever price railroads charged to transport crops. Farmers felt the railroads could gouge them by charging high prices and that they, the farmers, had no recourse when this happened. They blamed much of their trouble on this monopoly power.
The Chavin civilization developed, in part, as a result of the merging of two large rivers--the Mosna and the Huachecsa--in the Mosna Valley, since these provided crucial irrigation for crops.
One major lasting effects of the mongol empire in Europe and Asia was that it greatly increase trade between the continents, since trade routes were established to bring valuable goods from every corner of the empire.
