Without the ability to read ancient Chinese and Maya text, we would be limited to archeological findings and guesses made based on them. The fact, that we can read ancient texts, let us know for example:
the names and times of rule of many rulers,
the religious practices
some events from the past
some cultural and technological inventions such as their knowledge of astronomy
the social composition of the society
Our knowledge of urban live comes from the description of customs and occational information about who lived where and how much was paid for what services
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "becoming more self-sufficient." Trading centers in other countries helped the mother country in all of the following ways except for: becoming more self-sufficient gathering sufficient.
The Proclamation applied in the ten states that were still in rebellion in 1863, and thus did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware) that had not seceded. Those slaves were freed by later separate state and federal actions.
Portuguese--Brazil was the only land the Portuguese held in the New World.
<span>He was killed there.--He was killed in battle in the Philippines
200 (?)--it is actually over 200 that were killed. The ship began with 270 people and returned to Spain with 18 people. </span><span />
