Which of the Following Accurately Describes Global Trade in the Mid-Nineteenth

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which of the following accurately describes global trade in the mid-nineteenth century?

• A) The global trade of luxury goods, such as silk and porcelain, profoundly changed the societies that produced them.
• B) People increasingly worked to produce goods they could sell in the global market instead of producing subsistence crops.
• C) Most goods were carried overland by railroad instead of by sea on sailing ships.
• D) The people in the agricultural hinterlands were largely unaffected by changing global markets.

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