Ottoman--The Ottoman Empire located in current day Turkey, Iraq, and into Bulgaria and Romania were able to preserve the classical relics of Europe.
The Ottoman Empire stretched through eastern and southern Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East to about current day Iraq. They save the classical relics of the Roman, Greek, and Byzantine Empires. This information was protected and with Europeans began regular trading with the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, the information was reintroduced helping to bring Europe out of the "dark ages".
Charg-it was the first official charge card in that it allowed users to withdraw funds directly from their bank account. Almost all cards by MasterCard, Visa, etc. today are credit cards, not charge cards.
Motivations for colonization: Spain's colonization goals were to extract gold and silver from the Americas, to stimulate the Spanish economy and make Spain a more powerful country. Spain also aimed to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
Spain was considered to have as three main goals behind its expeditions to North America: the expansion of its empire, the attainment of wealth, and the spread of Christianity. It is easily forgotten that monarchies were not possessed of endless wealth.
I am pretty sure it is a. But the Indus valley writing was not discovered yet. They are still working on translating it
A) segregate blacks and whites.