The young Jesuit missionary Manuel Dias told his Chinese readers in 1610 about "a famous Western sage" who had constructed an instrument that made the moon seem "a thousand times larger." Who was that Western sage?

a. Isaac Newton
b. Francis Bacon
c. Galileo Galilei
d. Johannes Kepler


c

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What will be an ideal response?

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A) trading empire B) missionary settlement C) penal colony D) plantation colony

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A) Palmer Raids B) Red Scare C) Immigration Act of 1924 D) Volstead Act

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