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The explorers were looking for a shortcut to Asia. That's when they heard rumors about a passage in the Arctic.
I've left a Case Study from the <em>Voices and Visions</em> textbook as reference.
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Answer: the Battle at Fort Wagner
Explanation: The 54th Massachusetts played a crucial combat role, proving to skeptics that African American soldiers would fight bravely if given the chance.
The answer should be D seeing as they were a democracy
The correct answer is - Trade routes.
The lines with golden color are representing the trade routs on this image. The trade routes depicted are the ones that connected Asia and Europe, most of which are part of the Silk Road, which unlike the popular belief that it was a single route, it was actually a network of trade routes.
While the trading routes were very good in the sense of trade, economic development, sharing of ideas, cultures, communication, they also brought something devastating through them, the plague.
The plague is though to have started somewhere in the Chinese ports. Through the trade, a flea that carried the disease was also transported, so people started to get infected by it.
The disease was spreading very quickly, and over a very big area, killing millions of people.
Discovery of streets arranged in a grid like pattern and a system of pipes for moving water in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro suggest that these ancient river
<span>valley cities in South Asia had "organized government," since the construction and planning of these systems requires a strong central authority. </span>