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Portugal had a substantial role during the age of exploration, due to the sucess of Cristovão Colombo, the explorer that could managed to create one of the most lucrative trade routes by that time, linking Europe to Asia, and also discovered one of the richest deposit of gold in the age of exploration, the Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha, that is known for its beauty and natural resources such as gold, silver and Pau Brasil, a tree used to make red pigment for cloths that only the noble class had access by that time
<span>A would be the most correct answer. The 2004 tsunami caused untold damage and destruction to the Sri Lankan island and to its inhabitants. This led to more fighting over the sparse resources that were left over by the islanders who were still alive.</span>
The steamboat represented an important phase in the development of shipping. hope this helps.
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Subsistence crops are grown for the direct benefit of the farmer and their family. Cash crops are grown to deliberately be sold. ... Cotton makes a poor subsistence crop because you can't eat it and it has to be processed before it's useful (ginned, spun and woven)