I am not 100% sure but I believe the answer is A
The correct answer is <span>all the older soldiers who stayed safe and away from the battlefield
The narrator says that fathers and young sons will all die in the battlefield but those soldiers that avoided the battlefield would toddle off back home after the war and would die peacefully in their bad. The narrator says that he would sit with majors at the base and wouldn't participate. It's a critique of the system where young people die while powerful men sit around.</span>
a--All three countries wanted to spread the new knowledge they gained with the rest of Europe
Answer: Christopher Columbus was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he stumbled upon the Americas.
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