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Chapter 22 Pre-Test 1. By the 1500s caravan trade: a. was cheap and reliable b. was faster than seaborne trade c. was increasing year by year d. none of the above 2.: Why was Central Asia important to the land-based Eurasian empires? a. The area was heavily populated b. This was the area where each was most vulnerable to attack c. it was an agricultural paradise d. All of the above 3. The Eurasian empires sought to make the Central Asian territories profitable by: a. agriculture and mining b. stationing military garrisons c. both a and b d. none of the above 4. Serfdom in seventeenth and eighteenth century Russia became: a. less prevalent and more humane b. illegal or outlawed c. more brutal and widespread d. none of the above
