Answer: b. helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West.
Explanation:
The Hudson River School paintings highlighted the landscape of the West, allowing a better appreciation of an area still fairly unknown at the time. The growing admiration for the beauty of the Western scenery led to an increase in tourism and settlement. Furthermore, several national parks were established to protect the area.
The concept of the three continents in the Old World, viz. Asia, Africa, and Europe, goes back to classical antiquity. Their boundaries as defined by Ptolemy and other geographers of antiquity were drawn along the Nile and Don rivers.
