Ships that were narrow and could navigate thin waterways. These ships were called battering ships because they would ram into other ships to sink them.
Answer:
b
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Until the 18th century, the struggle between the Safavid version of Shia Islam and the Ottoman Turkish version of Sunni Islam had continued to remain an important dimension of the combative relationships between the two major empires.
Took over land resulting in the society stretching 2500 miles along the Andes. (I'm not sure it's completely right).