Whether to remain in town and risk catching the disease
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Answer: Option C
<u>Explanation:</u>
- Daniel Defoe was the author of “A journal of the Plague Year”. The plague was so devastating that killed so many. People believed that it was a curse from God.
- The narrator stayed inside London noting down all the happenings during the plague.
- Geraldine Brooks was the author of the novel “Year of Wonders book “. This book writes about a house maid, Anna Frith and her life incidents through the year of plague.
- The common point between these two books was if it was important to remain in town and catch the deadly plague.
1. <span>Captive slaves were taken from the coast of Africa to the Americas. = Middle Passage.
The term Middle Passage refers to the transportation of slaves from Africa to the Americas (the West Indies, to be more precise) which occurred in the 17th century. Many slaves died during this transportation, and many would die in the Americas due to harsh working conditions.
2. </span><span>Sick captive slaves were thrown overboard, since their deaths were covered by insurance. = Zong Ship Tragedy.
This term refers to the event when slavers who were transporting many slaves on the ship decided to kill a large number of them in order to ensure safe retrieval of healthy slaves, as well as to get money from the dead ones because they were insured.
3. </span><span>Raw materials from the Americas were shipped here to be manufactured into finished goods. = Europe.
It was common practice to produce goods in the Americas, and then transport them to Europe where they would be made into actual finished products. The Americas didn't have such sophisticated technology at the time whereas Europe did.
4. </span><span>Slaves on plantations here harvested tobacco, cotton, sugar, and other crops. = the Americas.
Slaves were sent to the Americas to work on plantations of their owners, for which they wouldn't be paid (or they would get limited amount of resources which were enough to keep them alive). They would harvest whatever was needed to make profit at the time.
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Socially, this period isn't a mediator time between the prosperous Great and Magnificent ones, as it was depicted previously. Aristotle the dad of current sciences, Menander the incredible comedies' creator, Epicure the moralist, Eratosthenes, yet additionally Euclid, Archimedes, and Polybius lived and worked amid the Greek Time frame. This period indicated advance in design, a ton of incredible euergetism (charitable donattions to the network), a duplication of gala days and festivities (appeared by the extraordinary number of made theaters), the improvement of workmanship and the making of libraries, with the most renowned being in Alexandria.
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