<span>A.
It included territory on five different continents.
- not true! only 3 continents: Africa, Asia, Europe
B.
It stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
- this is true! it touched the Atlantic in today's Portugal and the Red Sea in Egypt!
C.
It covered all of Central and Eastern Europe.
- it didn't reach that far
D.
It encompassed all of Africa and most of Asia. </span>- definitely not, it covered only the northern tip of Africa and only a small part of Asia.
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The correct answer is C) To introduce the reader to a famous American
If the author begins this article with a story of George Washington Carver was because he introduced the reader to a famous American.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an African American inventor and researcher who was a professor of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was the Director of the Agriculture School in the Institute in 1896 after Booker T. Washing had hired him. He did plenty of research on the use of peanuts to produce many products.
The Sumerian poem Hymn to Ninkasi is both a song of praise to the goddess of beer, Ninkasi, and a recipe for beer, first written down around 1800 BCE. Beer was made from bippar (twice-baked barley bread) which was then fermented and beer brewing was always associated with baking.
<span>This English victory allowed England to gain control of the North Atlantic sea-lanes, which showed England’s naval dominance. It also inspired nationalism, which motivated the people to create more colonies in the New World. This gave England more confidence and helped with expansion.</span>
<span>Keple's three laws are as follows:
a) Planets move around the Sun in ellipses, with the Sun at one focus
b )The line connecting the Sun to a planet sweeps equal areas in equal times.
c) The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube (3rd power) of the mean distance from the Sun
(also stated as-- ...of the "semi-major axis" of the orbital ellipse, half the sum of smallest and greatest distances from the Sun)</span>
