2. Read "Comparative Essay: Trade and Civilization" (textbook pages 178). What are the chief factors that led to the expansion of interregional trade during the first millennium C. E.? How did the growth of international trade contacts affect other aspects of society? Would you consider this as a precursor of globalization? Why
or why not?

The chief factors that led to the expansion of interregional trade was the Introduction of technology that facilitated transportation with the advent of the compass.The chief factors that led to the expansion of interregional trade was the Introduction of technology that facilitated transportation with the advent of the compass.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.