<span>Conflict and ethnic persecution forced natives/people from the Balkans to flee their homelands.</span>
Answer:
C. It formed the Great Lakes.
Explanation:
At the height of the last Ice Age, some 20,000 years ago, ice sheets in the northern hemisphere (Eurasia at the top, North America at the bottom) covered the largest area of the territory now known as North America. Scientists believe that the formation of the five Great Lakes was influenced by the movement of ice during the latest ice age.
The humanist scholarship encouraged oceanic exploration as due to the large-scale printing of books, people started gaining knowledge and setting out on oceanic expeditions in order to find new trade routes and satisfy their spirit of adventure.
The factors which motivated the Portuguese, particularly Prince Henry the Navigator, to explore west Africa were to extract and export gold and other valuables from which Portugal could benefit. The other reason was that Prince Henry was fascinated about west Africa as the Portuguese had little knowledge about it.
With the development of the printing press, books were available more easily and were even cheaper. This help in the widespread of new ideas and thoughts in society. People built sturdier ships with this knowledge and set out to explore new oceanic routes to procure spices and other goods at cheaper prices from different parts of the world.
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