<h2>Lets break this down, to what we know, and then we put it together and find the answer.</h2><h3>What we know:</h3>
Definition: Conspicuous consumption is the practice of purchasing goods or services to publicly display wealth rather than to cover basic needs. ... If we look at above examples we will find that conspicuous consumers often buy those goods & services which are too expensive for other classes of society (social status).
<h3>Put together:</h3>
Apple; Conspicuous consumption
<h3>Answer:</h3>
As an oligopoly, Apple has used its pricing power and product differentiation to target the more affluent consumer. Selecting higher prices and emotion stirring launches, Apple might be very aware of conspicuous consumption.
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(4)Asia and Europe
The Silk Road began in China and ran westward through Asia ending in the Anatolia Peninsula.
The Silk Road was a trading route which brought Asian goods westward to Constantinople. The road began in Hangzhou and Guangzhou, both port cities in China. The road forked north and south going into the Indian peninsula and through the Persian Empire.
The Anglo-Spanish war (1585-1604) was a periodic dispute between the kingdoms of Spain and England. This fight had several causes, such as economic and religious dispute between the two kingdoms, and also this conflict derived from the open-ended Dutch war of Independence.
As a result of a religious dissatisfaction, the king of Spain, Philip vowed to invade England. And on 28 May 1588, the Spanish Armada sailed to fight against the enemy kingdom. The result could not be worst. The English used a set of different strategies fireships to break the Spanish formation and force them to sail northward in more dangerous stormy waters. As they sailed back, they suffered severe damage, contributing to a totally different outcome king Philip have planned.
In conclusion, The Spanish sent the fleet of ships known as the Armada to invade England, but the English defeated the Armada and ended Spain`s dominance of the seas, letter D.
Thomas Hobbes
In this state, every person has a natural right to do anything one thinks necessary for preserving one's own life, and life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" (Leviathan, Chapters XIII–XIV).
