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Answer:
C). To inform the reader about the products and foods that a region offers.
Explanation:
As per the question, the author's key reason for writing the given excerpt from 'The Travels of Marco Polo' is 'to inform the reader about the products and foods that a region offers.' The descriptions of 'white incense, dates, rice grain, plentiful and abundant use of fish, consists of rice, meat, and fish' inform the readers about the food items that were commonly used in the region and how these food items and the products had a great impact on the economic, domestic, and social lives of people living there. Thus, <u>option C</u> is the correct answer.
Answer:
b. Sierra Madre Occidental
Explanation:
A major range of the North American mountains that run northwest and southeast to the western Mexico, along the Gulf of California and is apart of the cordillera.
This mountain range act as a source of water for the agricultural land and geologically is high plateau and a volcanic rock composed of the plutonic and sediments, formed by the lava flows.
Thus zone forms an extension of the northern Sonora stat, near the Mexico and the U.S border. This high plateau is cut by the running rivers. The highest place of elevation is known as the Tarahumara range.
