Why were port cities so strategic to the economic success of Megalopolis in its early years of Euro-American settlement and expansion?
What will be an ideal response?
The American colony was established in order to extract resources for transformation into finished products and ship them back to Europe. Port cities were developed along major rivers to facilitate the transfer of products shipped from the Eastern interior.
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