<span>1) educated people of the Middle Ages did NOT think (nor did the Church teach) that the earth was flat!! They had known otherwise for over two millennia! (Opposition to Columbus's plans was based on the belief that the world was LARGER than he thought, and the voyage too far to make safely. In fact, his CRITICS were correct about the earth's size!)
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William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
The European explorers did not borrow technology from Africa and other non-European countries during the "Age of Exploration".
Explanation:
Most of the non-European countries were either colonized or still had a primitive society without any development in science and technology. Hence, when then explorers started exploring they added new lands to the map but could not find any scientific development on the technical side to borrow from the newly discovered lands while exploring.
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