In 2014, there were approximately over 50 political action committees (PACs) in the United States. PACs are political committees established by corporations, labor unions, membership organizations or trade associations. However, PACs can donate money to parties or candidates they support.
During the Classical Era, long-distance trade routes (Greece to China) were predominately land-based while some short-distance ones took place around Mediterranean and other seas (Egypt to Greece). Today's travel routes are <em>very </em>different as we have begun to use flight to get from point A to point B. Additionally, while the goal in the past was to connect Europe to Asia, today we seem more focused on connecting the Eastern Hemisphere with the Western Hemisphere and thus we look across the large oceans more so than was done in the Classical Era.
Before the government provided welfare programs like home visits from social workers and food stamps, women reformers pioneered outreaches into poor, urban, and immigrant communities. Through their work in clubs, women established settlement houses that served as outposts to promote social welfare.
The answer is all of the above
