What is a vertical economy?

A. a system of top-down exchange across regions
B. a system that exploits environmental zones that contrast with one another in altitude, rainfall, overall climate, and vegetation
C. one of the types of segmentary lineage organization that is found in regions of East Africa
D. a means of integrating a society based on hereditary inequality and coercion
E. a form of indirect-biased transmission


Answer: B

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