He didn't trust them with his money and shut down the banking system
This is a quote from Noemon in the Odyssey as he is searching for his ship and trying to warn Penelope's suitors that God is on Telemachus's side.
The pardoner is characterized in this passage as AN EFFECTIVE SPEAKER AND A SKILLED CON ARTIST.
From the passage given above, the pardoner is shown to be an effective speaker who know how to get the attention of his audience, he is also shown to be a skilled con artist because from the passage we are told that he tricks other people to believe in his lies.
an Italian mathematician at the University of Padua, directed a new scientific instrument, the telescope, toward the heavens. Having heard
that a Dutch artisan had put together two lenses in a way that magnified distant ob- jects, Galileo built his own such device. Anyone who has looked through a tele- scope can appreciate his excitement. Ob- jects that appeared one way to the naked eye looked entirely different when magni- fied by his new “spyglass,” as he called it. The surface of the moon, long believed to be smooth, uniform, and perfectly spheri- cal, now appeared full of mountains and craters. Galileo’s spyglass showed that the sun, too, was imperfect, marred by spots that appeared to move across its surface. Such sights challenged traditional sci- ence, which assumed that “the heavens,” the throne of God, were perfect and thus never changed. Traditional science was shaken even further when Galileo showed that Venus, viewed over many months, appeared to change its shape, much as the moon did in its phases. This discovery provided evidence for the relatively new
I think it is the Great pyramid of Giza
