What did a guild do for the merchants?

a. maintained excellence
b. provided security
c. bought raw materials
d. paid the taxes

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

explanation:

people had jobs and began to work. that’s why the commercial revolution was great.