"Why do you think that people and ideas on the move would ultimately lead to the "first age of empires?"

People and ideas play a fundamental role in the first age of empires.

Explanation:

The first age of empires began when people from Africa are on the move would conquer new land and group and spread their control over large regions. These people with communities built the world’s first empires. Some of the first empires are the Egyptian Empire (New Kingdom of Egypt), the Assyrian Empire, Kush Empires, Persian Empire, and the Qin Dynasty.

Ideas also play a key role in establishing empires because it shows the pattern of how society should work and divided. Ideas also led to laws and regulation in society to diminish crimes. Ideas can arrive through trading centres where merchants and scholars from different regions gather together to sell their products and share knowledge about the world.

a.   it resulted in widespread unemployment.