The correct answer here is Asia, Africa and Europe.
The Silk Road is one of the most important trading networks that ever existed in the history of mankind and it is preserved as UNESCO World Heritage Site. It connected the East and the West and it was central for both the economic and cultural interaction between two parts of the world.
It depends on how one looks at Columbus, in some terms he was a hero for finding Spain more land & cultivating it in a way. He was also a Villian for the way he treated American natives.
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After the war, the Radicals demanded civil rights for freed slaves, including measures ensuring suffrage. They initiated the various Reconstruction Acts as well as the Fourteenth Amendment and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederate civil officials and military officers.