After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama referred to what source to guide him from the East African coast to the western coast of India?
a. Arabic charts and navigational guides
b. Charts used by Zheng He
c. Greek maps translated into Latin
d. Charts designed by Henry the Navigator
e. Descriptions of Marco Polo
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A favorite target of Christian missionaries in the late nineteenth century was
A) Europe. B) China. C) Canada. D) Latin America.
The African slave trade
a. was fundamentally altered by the French in the late 1400s. b. involved the forcible movement of millions of African slaves overseas. c. involved the deaths of less than one percent of those leaving West African ports before they arrived at a new home in the Americas. d. began practices never before seen in Africa. e. solved the labor shortage challenge in European agriculture.
A significant close relationship of choice that exists over a period of time between individuals who provide social support and who share various commonalities is known as _________. A. friendship B. acquaintanceship C. a role relationship D. a task relationship
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Which of the following is not a place explored by Pytheas in the fourth century B.C.E.?
a. Denmark b. Britain c. Greenland d. North Sea e. Irish Sea