Prairie refers to a large grassland that provides habitat for wildflowers, wolves, rabbits, elk, deer, bears, bison, and other plants and animals.
The differences are that Magna Carta<span> was made to set rules and give rights to the nobility, royalty, and other high-ranking officials of that time, and the </span>Constitution<span> was written to give rules and rights to all people.</span>
The correct answer is option C. "They were important centers of trade with the East and the Byzantine Empire". Italian city-states were prosperous as they served as centers of trade of the Byzantine Empire with the rest of the world in the East. The italian states seized the opportunity of making profits from the transport and sale of goods from one end of the known world to the other.
The arrival of Europeans of the Old World to the New World brought forth a transatlantic trade referred to as the Columbian Exchange. This was a wide transfer of foods, livestock, disease, and culture in the 15th and 16th centuries that truly changed the course of human history. To the Old World came goods such as tomatoes, maize (corn), and turkey, while to the New World, cows, horses, and sugarcane were introduced (these are only some of the many exchanged goods of the Columbian Exchange).
However, what many scholars deem as the most important and devastating was disease. Native Americans (including Mesoamerican and South American inhabitants) had not been in contact with New World diseases such as smallpox, measles, cholera, malaria, or typhus. Epidemics wiped out entire civilizations and resulted in the genocides of an estimated 40-50 million.
On another note, Spanish conquistadors took over the pre-Columbian world. Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs while Francisco Pizarro subdued the Incas. Both were aided with advanced with guns and steel weapons, but mainly with disease. A third of the Aztecs died due to smallpox, and the Incans saw a 93% declination in their population
