Answer:
D. They wanted to expand their power in the world.
Explanation:
The age of Discovery is considered to roughly start from early fifteenth century and continue into the early seventeenth century. During this age the rulers sponsored explorers considering the political and trade benefits which unknown lands could offer them..
Options A, B, and C are incorrect because the journeys' main purpose was political and economic.
Answer:
D. Most infants died before childhood.
Explanation:
Unfortunately, most children fell to disease and harsh conditions. Back then medicine was not evolved as it is now and most would die of the common cold. But it was also customary to have large families in order to support the family so kids often were used as labor and died in unfortunate accidents or from exhaustion. Today, there are many many laws protecting children from such things and medicine has evolved so most people in wealthy countries could live up to 70 years old if they take care of themselves.
B. he pauses to listen for voices y because he wants to know who it is
The answer is B, because we are learning about the national air and space museum, not the there museums.
Answer:
William Wordsworth departed from the conventions of the eighteenth century
poetry, which valued aristocratic, heroic language. Wordsworth's Romantic
style of poetry used more natural, everyday language.
