Which of the following best explains why the trade route from portugal to india went around africa instead of across the mediterranean sea? a. the weather was more unpredictable in the mediterranean than in the atlantic ocean. b. it was quicker to sail around africa than to travel through the mediterranean sea. c. arab and italian merchants controlled the mediterranean trade routes. d. portugal wanted to set a record for traveling the farthest by boat.

Option C

Explanation:

Arab and Italian merchants controlled the Mediterranean trade routes, is the correct answer.

In 9th-century Maritime trade routes of Indian Ocean were in control of Arabs while During middle ages the Spice trade with India was done through Mediterranean trade routes. The Mediterranean route was controlled by Venetians and Genoese traders. But during 15th century, a new trade route via the Cape of Good Hope was discovered by the Portuguese, the superior maritime technology eroded the base of Arabs and Italians.

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the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.