is a political system in which multiple local communities may be organized into a single system but in which political power is still relatively informal and flows from systems such as elders, lineages, age sets, and religious specialists.

i think it would be   c)   the raw   materials necesarry to produce   goods

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1. artillery

2. jose san martin

3.their economies remained dependent on outside powers.

4. drafted new economies

5. democracies have replaced dictatorships

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the answer is d.index