Identify, based on your reading, ONE specific example of how the canal system was both a driving force and a consequence of imperial expansion that could have led the author to conclude that those who built the Grand Canal
deserve more credit than those who built the Great Wall.

figure it out on your own and actually read the text

Explanation:

You’re lazy

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939