"A" would be the correct answer. Even though the main goal of the voyage was to find a different sea route to Asia. Bartolome and other Portuguese explorer have also made stops along the African coast and started to realize how could of an alternative they would be compared to the Mediterranean trade routes.
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The correct answer among all the other choices is c. Greeks. The Phoenicians based their government on the Egyptians and the Greeks. Thank you for posting your question. I hope this answer helped you. Let me know if you need more help.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The Netherlands was more democratic than most 17th-century European nations in that in those years, the Netherlands was formed by seven provinces under one confederation. People from each providence elected their rulers and the provinces were independentist but decently related to the other provinces.
In 1588, these providences accepted to form the Republic of United Netherlands, and this decision made the nation stronger, making the Netherlands a superpower in Europe, in a time when European monarchies and absolutist kings dominated many lands in the continent and abroad.