Inventions Like Gunpowder and the Wheelbarrow Were Created by the Chinese

question 146

Multiple Choice

Inventions like gunpowder and the wheelbarrow were created by the Chinese hundreds of years ago.The fact that such items were not put to productive use was caused primarily by a lack of ____.

• A)available financial capital
• B)incentives for entrepreneurship
• C)an adequate price system
• D)ingenuity

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