Economics

== = = =Scarcity and Resource Allocation= 1. Compare the endowment of productive resources in world regions and explain how this endowment contributed to specialization, trade and interdependence in ancient times. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
 * World Fact Book**

=Markets= 2. Describe the growth of cities and the establishment of trade routes in Asia, Africa and Europe; the products and inventions that traveled along these routes (e.g., spices, textiles, paper, precious metals and new crops); and the role of merchants.