Which of the Following About the Aegean World Is Correct

question 16

Multiple Choice

Which of the following about the Aegean world is correct?

• A) Political centralization was quickly established due to the large common plain that dominated the landscape.
• B) There was little trade, as all valued commodities were close at hand.
• C) Polities struggled, like in Mesopotamia and Egypt, to recover from the droughts of the second millennium BCE.
• D) A number of islands flourished within a seaborne trading network focused on the exchange of tin and copper.

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Definitions:

Market Shares

The portion of a market controlled by a particular company or product, often expressed as a percentage of total sales in that market.

Legal Cartel Theory

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Production Costs

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Natural Monopolies

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