“This land [of South America] is very pleasing, full of an infinite number of very tall trees which never lose their leaves and
throughout the year are fragrant with the sweetest aromas and yield an endless supply of fruits, many of which are good to taste and conducive to bodily health. The fields produce many herbs and flowers and most delicious and wholesome roots that I fancied myself near the Terrestrial Paradise. What shall we say of the multitude of birds and their plumes and colours and singing and their numbers and their beauty? I am unwilling to enlarge upon this description, because I doubt if I would be believed. . . . We saw so many . . . animals that I believe so many species could not have entered Noah’s ark. We saw many wild hogs, wild goats, stags and does, hares, and rabbits, but of domestic animals, not one.” —Amerigo Vespucci,
as quoted in Eyewitness to History
Vespucci was
a.
afraid to eat the plants.
b.
happy to try new foods.
c.
armed against poisonous animals.
d.
glad to see sheep and cattle.
Please select the best answer from the choices provided
a person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
The historians that came of age during the middle to late twentieth century tended to turn their attention toward : Social and cultural events and themes This refer to the period between 1960 - 1999. many of them refer to the events that happen before this as 'history from below'
