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Ebrown

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Faced with problems associated with the law of diminishing returns, world-empires characteristically ________ in order to feed and provide for their populations.
 
  A) colonized nearby lands
  B) imported slave labor
  C) regularly invented new technologies
  D) promoted import substitution
  E) established trade relations with countries having comparative advantages

Question 2

World-empires are organized around a
 
  A) reciprocal social economy.
  B) subsistence production economy.
  C) system of taxation and redistribution.
  D) capitalist social economy.
  E) both a system of taxation and redistribution and a capitalist social economy.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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