Inventions like gunpowder and the wheelbarrow were created by the Chinese hundreds of years ago.The fact that such items were not put to productive use was caused primarily by a lack of ____.
A)available financial capital
B)incentives for entrepreneurship
C)an adequate price system
D)ingenuity

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The question implies that the inventions were not put to productive use, which suggests a lack of entrepreneurship or incentives to commercialize the inventions. Available financial capital may have been a contributing factor, but it is not the primary reason given in the question. An adequate price system would not be relevant in this context. While ingenuity was necessary to invent these items, it does not explain why they were not put to productive use.

Inventions Like Gunpowder and the Wheelbarrow Were Created by the Chinese