Communication between peoples in Africa and the Americas was hindered by
a. differences in climatic zones.
b. the failure of people to develop the wheel.
c. the lack of seaborne transport.
d. the lack of written languages.
a
You might also like to view...
Which of the following statements accurately describes the "Yippies"?
A) They were second highest grossing band from Great Britain in the 1960s. B) They were a group of hippies who lived in a commune in New Mexico that practiced free love. C) They part of the counterculture movement that wished to disrupt the Democratic Convention in Chicago. D) They were a group of Nixon supporters who attempted to infiltrate the anti-war protest movement. E) They were the remnants of a once proud Native American tribe that called for their independence from the United States.
Latins
What will be an ideal response?
What was the most important reason for the massive growth of the African slave trade in the sixteenth century?
a. The need to supply the mines of Peru with an abundant labor force b. The desire to develop the tobacco plantations of the New World c. The intense labor needs created by the development of sugar growing in the New World d. The enormous growth in the African birth rate e. The European ability to obtain slaves in many West African areas
America's most famous Enlightenment figure, inventor of the lightning rod and bifocals, organizer of a hospital and a circulating library, was
A) Thomas Jefferson. B) David Rittenhouse. C) Cotton Mather. D) Benjamin Franklin.