China's isolation by the himalayas prevented modernization and kept the ideas and technologies that were traded in europe and india out of there country. this also kept merchants and traders with goods that china could not access out of the country, however, this did decrease the chance of invasion because the mountains did provide protection. the chineese built the Great Wall completely isolating themselves and protecting there pure chinese cultures and traditions and they remained uneffected by the rest of europe.
It would be "Columbus" whose request to sail to the New World <span>Portugal denied, since most Portuguese officials thought the journey would be too expensive and foolish.
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Corps of Discovery traveled from the central United States Northwest to the Pacific.
The states they passed through on their route on today's map would be:
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington State
Members of the Corps of Discovery was commissioned by Thomas Jefferson and included Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The objective was to study the land and its offering to learn how the Louisiana Purchase could be profitable.
Back in 1615 when it was widely accepted that the earth was the center of the galaxy, Galileo discovered that we revolved around the sun in year long cycles along with other planetary objects. He was put in house arrest for 9 years because of this because it was considered a heresy. He also invented the telescope and was the first to observe the largest of Jupiter's moons.
