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Transcribed Image Text:Which later developments would increase the trading networks described in Document A?
1.
Global warming and the end of the monsoon cycle
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British colonial control and the building of an internal railroad network
Development of the internet and the growth of India's banking industry
Gandhi's use of non-violence and the achievement of India's independence
![Document A
.. Nature also shaped the rhythms of trade and the places where it was conducted by constraining [hindering] transportation. All across maritime Asia-from Canton
[China] to Mocca [southern Arabia]-trading schedules were dictated by the monsoon winds. Since strong winds blew consistently in one direction for several month
and then stopped, and then blew consistently the other way for months, it made no sense to fight those winds. A trader went as far as he (or occasionally she) could i
one direction and then stayed around until the wind reversed; his goods were then picked up by another merchant who had arrived earlier and knew precisely how long
into the next season he could safely stay and still have enough days of favorable wind to get home. Thus... [a] series of emporia [trade centers] developed at sites suc
as Melaka [Malacca], Surat [India], and the Muscat [Oman] that had more to do with how far one could travel from there in one sailing season than with what goods
could be produced locally. The result was a remarkably lively and cosmopolitan chain of port cities along the Asian littoral [sea coast], but in many cases these cities
had only weak relationships with their immediate hinterlands [areas inland from the port]...
Source: Pomeranz and Topik, The World That Trade Created, M. E. Sharpe, 1999 (adapted)](https://content.bartleby.com/qna-images/question/78a96f4b-c4a7-4e44-95dd-3606c481f172/c6409de9-2c0d-459a-babc-ea468473c993/ptx95gt_processed.jpeg)
Transcribed Image Text:Document A
.. Nature also shaped the rhythms of trade and the places where it was conducted by constraining [hindering] transportation. All across maritime Asia-from Canton
[China] to Mocca [southern Arabia]-trading schedules were dictated by the monsoon winds. Since strong winds blew consistently in one direction for several month
and then stopped, and then blew consistently the other way for months, it made no sense to fight those winds. A trader went as far as he (or occasionally she) could i
one direction and then stayed around until the wind reversed; his goods were then picked up by another merchant who had arrived earlier and knew precisely how long
into the next season he could safely stay and still have enough days of favorable wind to get home. Thus... [a] series of emporia [trade centers] developed at sites suc
as Melaka [Malacca], Surat [India], and the Muscat [Oman] that had more to do with how far one could travel from there in one sailing season than with what goods
could be produced locally. The result was a remarkably lively and cosmopolitan chain of port cities along the Asian littoral [sea coast], but in many cases these cities
had only weak relationships with their immediate hinterlands [areas inland from the port]...
Source: Pomeranz and Topik, The World That Trade Created, M. E. Sharpe, 1999 (adapted)
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