How did wealth influence ancient civilizations

Ancient civilizations were able to spread their power and influence more when they had wealth. Wealth enabled them to fund larger armies and trade more of their goods which brought power to them.

Explanation:

There's a popular saying that says money makes the world go round or spin, this question is that same example of saying. ancient civilizations were able to trade currency or different riches/wealth for new resources, expanding the peoples intellectual understandings of the world.

the correct answer is “opportunity cost”. opportunity cost is what a company misses out because it decided in one option over another one. in this case, the company decided to invest in building a factory so it gave up another possible benefit or profit in order to achieve success with the factory.  

trade-off is not the correct answer since it is a situation in which you accept losing something in return for benefits in other areas.

and finally, consequence is a general term used to accept what it comes when you make a decision. it can be a positive or negative consequence depending if the decision you took was the correct one.  

he was able to speed up production of the processing of seeds