How would a manufacturer benefit by using fewer scarce resources? the product would be less expensive to produce. the product would better satisfy consumer needs. the product would be popular and readily available. the product would provide a more satisfactory profit.

Indeed, one of the basic principles of economic production is that when a resource is rare and/or difficult to collect it becomes a more expensive commodity, which in turn makes its use in the production of manufactured goods more expensive.

A good example is the rare earth minerals used in the production of electronic components of cell phones which are extremely rare and thus expensive and valuable. As technology progresses, should the manufacturers find a way to use much less of such rare resources, their demand would decrease and in turn their use in the production of electronic components would be lower which means they could drastically reduce the prices of cells phones and sell even more of these which would increase their financial profits.

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the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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