Answer:
A
Explanation:
According to EJI, of all lynchings committed after 1900, only 1% resulted in a lyncher being convicted of a criminal offense of any kind
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas.
The Minoans were a maritime civilzation that lived in the island of Crete around 3,000BC. The Minoans were a cultural model of the Mycenean who lived in mainland Greece around 2,700BC. Even though they were relativetely close geographically and periodically, they had some significant differences:
- Minoans were a maritime civilization while Myceneans lived in mainland
- Because they lived in mainland, Myceneans had a stronger military force and based their civilization around warfare and conquest while Minoans relied heavily on trade and diplomacy.
- Language was a major difference as well, Myceneans spokea version of Greek while the language of the Minoans is unknown.
- Minoans were artistically and architecturally more sophisticated than the Myceneans.
- Minoans had religious iconography that was absent from the mainland.
The Ottoman sultans’ fascination with European art, which had so strongly influenced the arts of the eighteenth century, played an equally important role in the nineteenth. Just as they attempted to solve the empire’s problems with the adoption of European systems of law, military, and even dress, so European-style art seemed the most appropriate form of expression for what the country perceived as its own modern and cosmopolitan culture.
