"The Government of His Imperial Majesty the Shah grants to the concessionaire [William Knox D'Arcy]... a special and exclusive privilege to search for, obtain, exploit, develop, render suitable for trade, carry away and sell natural gas, petroleum, asphalt and ozocate throughout the whole extent of the Persian Empire for a term of sixty years..."
— D’Arcy Oil Concession, signed by the Shah of Persia, 1901
Which of the following 19th- or early-20th-century developments is best illustrated by the concession described in the passage?
- AThe adoption of Marxist revolutionary policies to state-control oil production
- The growth of large-scale transnational businesses that operated across national bordersCevap
- CThe continuation of mercantilist economic policies that barred private corporate investments
- DThe transition of non-industrialized states to direct colonial rule under European empires
Cevap
The growth of large-scale transnational businesses that operated across national borders
The D'Arcy Concession illustrates the growth of transnational businesses because it allowed a private foreign investor to establish enterprise operations across national borders to extract resources (oil) for global markets. This is a key feature of the development of industrial capitalism, where industrial nations and their corporations sought raw materials globally.
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The global nature of trade and production contributed to the proliferation of large-scale transnational businesses in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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