It was the search for such a route to Asia that actually led to the discovery of the Americas by Columbus, which meant that this ushered in an entirely new era of importing goods from the Americas to Europe and exploiting natives in both the Americas and Africa.
The answer that you are looking for is A) He had experience
<span>The Native Americans saw it as attempt to break-up their tribes and refused to participate - it was a failure
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<u>Here are your correct matches, with a few bits of added info</u>:
1. First president to visit Communist China = Richard Nixon
- <em>This was a lasting foreign policy initiative, starting friendly relations between the US and The People's Republic of China</em>
2. Egyptian leader = Anwar el-Sadat
3. Israeli leader = Menachem Begin
- <em>Sadat and Begin signed a peace treaty between their countries.</em>
4. deposed Shah of Iran = Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
5. Soviet leader visited by Nixon in 1972 = Leonid Brezhnev
6. Nixon's Vice President = Spiro Agnew
- <em>Agnew was the Vice-President until he resigned for tax evasion. He was replaced by Gerald Ford</em>
7. leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran = Ayatollah Khomeini
8. fired by President Nixon Archibald Cox
- <em>Cox was Special Prosecutor in the Watergate investigation. Firing Cox did not solve that crisis for Nixon. Leon Jaworski was appointed to replace Cox, and the investigation continued.</em>
Spanish and European settlers bout decease and cattle