PLEASE! BRAINLIEST!
Why did the Chinese trade natural resources along the Silk Road?
to expand their territory into Central Asia
to discover new religious beliefs to practice
to get other goods that they needed in exchange
to gain political influence over their trading partners

Step-by-step explanation:

Note: My explanation is based of the order-of-operations

First, using the order-of-operations, we evaluate the expressions in parentheses. Fully simplifying gives us: .

Next, we do giving us . So far, our expression is simplified to .

We also know that is just so we can replace that value in the expression leaving us with: . Now, we can solve it in simple steps!

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Our answer is

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