European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices. The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the colonization of the Americas after their discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1492
It took 3 years to build ONE Terracotta Warrior
He applied his skill in engineering to toughen up the defence
Personally speaking, I believe that if Talbot opened the article by presenting some historical background, the article would not engage the typical reader. This is because a lot of people find historical information uninteresting. Her opening in Paragraph 1, "Daniel Kennedy
remembers when he still thought that valedictorians were a good thing", is much better because it gives her the chance to engage more readers, more so because they probably have remembered
the fight for the title Valedictorian, or they have even been involved in it.
