1. Which best explains why Europeans wanted to discover a direct trade route to Asia?
Advances in ships and navigational technology made a direct route possible.
European traders desired to see the famed wealth and power of Asia's empires.
Venetian and Arab traders controlled the overland routes and the prices of goods.
Trading was made easier by the safety of the passage into the Mongol Empire.

answer; /// i do believe that its napolean's conquest of spain;

no statements but ok.

the statement that best describes the idea of manifest destiny that was used in the 19th century would be that "it was fate that the united states would continue to  expand westward," since people thought the us was "destined" to do so. 

thomas jefferson is the answer

adopted the practice of proskynesis, a persian court custom that involved bowing down and kissing the hand of others, depending on their rank.