The proliferation of technical advances and growing wealth of cities in the Abbasid Middle East was most closely matched by which contemporaneous area of civilization?
a. Mississippian North America
b. Song China
c. Great Zimbabwe
d. Western Europe
e. Russia
Answer: b. Song China
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