The correct answer is A. Salt mines in the Sahara desert
Salt was extremely important at that time and was even used as currency often because it was expensive.
During the Age of Absolutism, several European monarchs intensified the power of their authority by emphasizing their divine right to rule and A) centralizing their power.
European monarchs clearly undrstood how powerful can get the local regional rulers. Considering the fact that they had armies and could always plot against the crown, monarchs had to do everything to prevent this from happening and establish all sources of power in the capital.
Arched doorways are the common characteristic of Renaissance buildings.
Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
Renaissance architecture, between early 14th and 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrates development of certain elements of ancient Roman and Greek material and thought culture. This European architecture followed the Gothic architecture and had been succeeded by the Baroque architecture.
Filippo Brunelleschi has been considered as the first Renaissance architect. The following are some of the distinct features of the Renaissance architecture,
- Columns - Rome type columns had been used
- Ceilings - Generally, they were flat
- Shapes - Most of the architectures were built as rectangle or square symmetrical shapes
- Front - The facade were symmetrical around the vertical axis.
- Arches and Domes - Inspired from Greek and Roman architecture.
One theory is that the native Americans where the first to come to America but this is just an old wives tale.
