Which of the Following Best Characterizes Economic Changes in China's

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best characterizes economic changes in China's economy in the first few centuries BCE?

• A) Plantations increasingly produced commercial crops using slave labor.
• B) Merchants lost power as trade decreased following the Warring States period.
• C) Buddhist monks exercised a tax monopoly on goods carried along the Silk Roads.
• D) Power shifted away from the agrarian elite and into the hands of traders and financiers.

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