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By the sixteenth century, the as of South America ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean 1. According to the passage, which of the highlands from what is now Ecuador to central Chile. While following is true about the preindustrial long most of the as were self-sufficient agriculturists, the distance trad works? inhabitants of the highland basins above 9,000 feet were constrained by the kinds of crops they could cultivate. A. They were not used extensively in most Whereas 95 percent of the pr ipal Andean food crops can be cultivated below 3,000 feet, only 20 percent reproduce of the preindustrial world. readily above 9,000 feet. Given this unequal resource distribution, highland as needed access to the products of B. They were used to some extent by the lower, warmer climatic zones in order to enlarge the variety people of the Andean highlands. and ty of their foodstuffs. In most of the preindustrial world, the problem of different resource distribution was C. They were not an effective means of resolved by long-distance trad works over which consumer exercised little control. Although the peoples of the solving the problem of different Andean highlands participated in suc works, they relied resource distribution. primarily on the maintenance of autonomous production s in as many ecological zones as possible. The commodities D. They necessitated the establishment of produced in these zones were extracted, processed, and permanent sa lite communities in transported entirely by members of a single group. This strategy of direct access to a um n