Early merchants practiced risk sharing by

Select one:

A$.$ Having a number of merchants putting their goods on a single ship so that all merchants would suffer equally were there a loss.

$$ B$.$ Having the merchant, shipper, and buyer of the goods all agree to bear any loss to the goods equally.

$$ C$.$ Having several merchants spread their goods among several ships, thereby reducing the chance of any one merchant losing evity thing.

$$ D$.$ Having someone other than the merchant ship the goods so that this other party would be held at least partly responsible for any loss to the goods.