change begins when people are educated and strong
This excerpt expresses the theme of empowerment through education and how such an experience can lift people from oppression. It also demonstrates how a people that are strong willed can pull together to correct the injustices that afflict society
The correct answer is the first option, Vespucci. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who studied the work of Ptolemy and, in doing so, found that if Asia was as far east as Columbus had thought it was, it would cover half the Earth. He not only discovered that Asia was in fact smaller than what Columbus had thought it was, but also that the size of the Earth was much bigger than what most people thought it to be.
