The process by which a society settles its conflicts and allocates the resulting benefits and costs is called

Politics. It is a process by which a government makes decisions that will affect the members of a society. In this process, the government duty is to receive social inputs (demands)  to generate outputs (decisions) that after some deliberation will impact the community, as a whole, with costs and benefits.    

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

well it definitly does because if you are seen as weak you will be seen as unimportant and they will walk all over you and the us is the most powerful military and the largest in the world

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