How did italian city-states like venice and florence become major banking and trade centers?
a. large families of powerful bankers established trade agreements with nearby cities.
b. their location made them a natural route for travel between europe, africa, and asia.
c. their military forces conquered nearby cities, which increased their financial resources.
d. they shared economic strategies and built alliances in other regions during the crusades.

d

step-by-step explanation:

an inequality is an expression which means more than one number is a solution. we graph the solutions on a number line to show all possible values. we graph using circles and arrows.

this is a filled in circle on -2 so this is . this means only answers c and d are options.

answer d points to the right.

increases in demand are shown by a shift to the right in the demand curve. this could be caused by a number of factors, including a rise in income, a rise in the price of a substitute or a fall in the price of a complement.

which the answer is:

b

the answer should be a. the sui empire, the tang empire extended from korea in the west to manchuria in the east.

southern north america: yucatán peninsula in southern mexico extending into northern guatemala, and northern belize. these moist forests on the yucatán peninsula of south-eastern mexico are characterized by a tropical humid climate with little topographic relief.

explanation: