Read the excerpt from an informative essay about globalization in China. Despite regulations and limits, these new industries have contributed to high smog levels. The amount of smog in Beijing is twenty times higher than worldwide safety levels. While manufacturing has led to increased pollution levels, population growth has had an even stronger effect. By 2012, the population of Beijing rose to 20 million citizens. Which phrase from the excerpt indicates a transition? The amount of smog in Beijing . . . While manufacturing has led to . . . . . . population growth has had . . . . . . the population of Beijing rose . . .

for many centuries there were important factors which the economies of the muslim empires developed increasingly. they applied economic procedures in production, investment, finance, taxation and property. they used to tax certain goods (for example: harvest), they charged interest on money lent, they signed contracts with merchants; they relied on a common currency, and they used checks as well as promissory notes. with the money collected by means of taxation, the government provided the needy with an income. in addition, trading networks covered huge distances, so far regions started to have contact and exchange goods. this trade network covered areas of asia, africa and europe.

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