The era between 1450 and 1750 saw the appearance of several land-based empires who built their power on the use of gunpowder: the Ottomans and the Safavids in Southwest Asia , the Mughals in India , the Ming and Qing in China , and the new Russian Empire.
Well, if we had never explored there, we wouldn't have any information on that area at all.
A biography is the life history of an individual, written by someone else. An autobiography is the story of a person's life, written by that person.
E) the township-and-range survey system was based on a geometric grid pattern......