سوال ۱۱۰ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسب‌وکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۱

Passage 2 — summary: Farming villages offered mutual security, shared facilities, seasonal help, and social companionship. Many grew into cities that relied on rural food surpluses to support urban specialists, while cities supplied protection and markets in return; early urban centers followed the development of agriculture. Mesopotamian city-states combined urban centers with surrounding farmland, and uncultivated desert or swamp lay between their territories, whose inhabitants sometimes fought and sometimes cooperated.

Paragraph 3 context — paraphrase: A city controlled nearby farmland and villages and required their surplus food to sustain its population of specialists.

The phrase "its population" in paragraph 3 refers to the population of .......... .